Flutter Engine license

[satya attili]

Hi Flutter Dev,

Flutter engine license is under BSD3-Clause as per the github page, But it contains GPL licence files under https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/master/tools/licenses/data/gpl-3.0, Our IP team reviewed flutter framework and engine repos. 

Engine repo having GPL files, so they are not allowing us to use Flutter for our mobile app development. 

@flutter-dev, Suggest me to how we can proceed further with Flutter.

Thanks in advance

[Sawyer Cutler]

Hey, 

You should be fine as this is under the flutter engine.  In Development, you will not be touching this. 

You should be completley fine.  There are big companies using Flutter and not running into any issues.  A GPL license means you can use it, just not change the code directly . You can build on it no problems however.

Best of luck! 

On Nov 11, 2019, at 5:03 AM, satya attili <satya....@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Nishant KR]

There is no issue. There are huge community for Flutter and it has been adopt by big companies as well as freelancer. You can check on GitHub there are so many repository that already build app on Flutter ex https://github.com/ionicfirebaseapp/flutter-app

Or there are so many market place they are building app and they keep public with their open-source so you can download and use ex https://www.ionicfirebaseapp.com/products/Flutter-Todo-app So it should not be an issue to build app with the flutter.

[Stuart Morgan]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:03 AM satya attili <satya....@gmail.com> wrote:

But it contains GPL licence files under https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/master/tools/licenses/data/gpl-3.0

See the readme in that directory:

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/master/tools/licenses/data/README

That license file is there because it's used by the script that collects and validates all the licenses used by code compiled into the engine. The fact that the script has a reference copy of the text of various licenses as input data doesn't mean that there is necessarily code in the engine that uses each of those licenses.

See https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/4764 for more information about seeing what licenses are actually used.

-Stuart