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Freedom Issue #1167

Updated by bill-auger over 1 year ago

h3. *TLDR: read this summary
https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2022-March/008203.html*
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Due to outstanding freedom issues with Google's Chromium project[1], we should remove QTWebengine since it is non-free.



"QtWebEngine integrates chromium's fast moving web capabilities into Qt. Our goal is to bring the latest and best implementation of the web platform into the universe of Qt. It is not just a port of the core HTML/CSS rendering engine, *it is the entire Chromium platform*."[2]

Unfortunately, this well break all programs which have sold their souls to Google - by replacing the libre "QTWebkit" with "QTWebengine" including Qupzilla and konqueror and some other important packages.

Webkit/Webkit2 remain free software without non-free Google code.[3]

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-linux-libre@nongnu.org/msg02199.html
[2] https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
[3] https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebKit

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