Re: OT: gecko rendering engine and galeon/skipstone
IIRC, I think there were also licensing issues involved with separately
distributing the gecko rendering engine outside the full mozilla package.
I would assume this would change once mozilla completes transition to full
dual licensing under MPL and GPL.
-Dan
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and
> galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question
> came to my mind:
> They both use the gecko rendering engine from Mozilla. They both need a
> full install of Mozilla on the machine to work (this is a lot of overhead
> on a small harddisk, considering the fact, that you perhaps are not able
> to use Mozilla, if you have small amount of RAM, but you may be able to
> use galeon/skipstone - so Mozilla would take up several Megs of
> diskspace, just to provide the rendering engine).
> Wouldn't it be possible to take just the gecko engine and incorporate it
> into a new light weight browser, so there would be no need to have Mozilla
> installed?
> Why don't the developers of galeon/skipstone follow this approach?
> Anybody knowing of a browser doing this?
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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