Bug#1101197: webkit2gtk: Please build with libwertc support as BoringSSL switched to Apache 2.0 license

[Pirate Praveen]

On 3/25/25 6:01 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:42:24PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> LibWebRTC is now GPL compatible [1] as BoringSSL followed license
>> change in OpenSSL and switched to Apache 2.0 and enabling libwebrtc
>> support until gstreamer webrtc support is ready would make it
>> possible for Epiphany browser to support WebRTC.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> there are a couple of blockers here:
> 
> - The version of libwebrtc with the new license needs to be imported
>    to the upstream WebKit repository. At the moment it is not as far as
>    I can see.
> 
>    https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/6926aa6be75b944cca5aaad690b217e80a5781a9/Source/ThirdParty/libwebrtc/Source/third_party/boringssl/src/LICENSE

I opened https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290381 for updating it.

> - Upstream WebKitGTK needs to bundle libwebrtc in the tarballs, which
>    is also not happening and I'm not sure that they want to do it
>    because the preference is to have a gstreamer-based webrtc
>    implementation instead, see here for more details:
> 
>    https://wpewebkit.org/about/faq.html#what%E2%80%99s-the-status-regarding-webrtc%3F

There is a bug for that https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196222

> I'm not sure that I'm in the position to change this downstream in
> Debian, this needs to be discussed with the WebKitGTK team first, this
> could be a good place:
> 
>     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235885

I also asked here https://social.masto.host/@praveen/114218474213019647

> Berto

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