[Eric] Eric helpviewer

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hello,

the eric 'help browser' is a full fledged web browser. Why write another one? How about 
extracting it and make it a standalone browser? I already thought about that but haven't found the 
time yet. eric keeps me busy. A standalone browser could be called 'Troll Web' (Troll for former 
Trolltech, Web for web browser). I could create a Mercurial repository for that on my server over 
here.

If you want to go with your own browser and want to take code from the eric web browser, you 
may do so as long as you mark it with a proper copyright statement and your project is published 
under GPLv3. If you find and fix issues in my code I would be happy to receive the fix for 
inclusion in eric.

Regards,
Detlev

On Wednesday 19 February 2014, 07:13:31 Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently writing my own browser[1] based on PyQt5.
> 
> I somehow stumbled over Eric and found the Helpviewer[2] in the
> source, which seems to be a full-fledged browser, with adblocking,
> userscripts, and probably some other code which might be handy for me.
> 
> What's the state of that code? I guess I can borrow some of that for
> my project (also under the GPL3), right?
> 
> Also, I noticed LICENSE.GPL3[3] in hg says:
>   Eric is Copyright (c) 2002 - 2008 Detlev Offenbach
> 
> might want to update that ;)
> 
> Florian
> 
> [1] http://git.the-compiler.org/qutebrowser/tree/
> [2]
> http://die-offenbachs.homelinux.org:48888/hg/eric5/file/9e5b6fc3e74f/Helpvi
> ewer [3]
> http://die-offenbachs.homelinux.org:48888/hg/eric5/file/9e5b6fc3e74f/LICENS
> E.GPL3-- 
*Detlev Offenbach*
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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