I'm evaluating CEF for use in a commercial project, but it will have to go through our OSS office and I'm trying to make the job as easy as possible for them (to increase it's chance of approval). I've been going through all the licences in "about://credits" and assessing them. I've seen similar questions around, but hopefully I can be a bit more specific about the components I'm unsure of (for the moment I'm only interested in the windows platform if that makes any difference).
In particular I've come across XZ which appears to have quite complex licensing. About credits says:
"See http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/xz/COPYING"
If you follow the link you'll see a few bits are GPL:
[*]A set of scripts that are "GNU GPLv2+"
[*]The the Build system is "GNU GPLv2+ or GNU GPLv3+"
It does make it clear that anything built using the build system isn't restricted to GPL but you can see from the chromium repository that it the GPL scripts (all the build scripts I can see apear to be public domain, but I haven't gone through it exhaustively).
But I'm not sure how it's all linked together. Does it include all the code in the repository (and thus include GPL code)? Or does it somehow only link to liblzma which is Public domain?
Any input would be appreciated.