I'm the main Awesomium developer-- the 1.6 branch is based off a stable revision from April 2010.
We've recently updated to the latest Chromium trunk and will be launching an experimental, public build of our 1.7 branch soon. (Would have happened sooner but we've been focusing more on getting the library stable rather than absorbing new features.)
By the way, we do participate in the development of Chromium (albeit, rather covertly in IRC), I personally have been a long-time lurker of the mailing-list since the first month it opened. :-)
Regarding WebKit's (or, more specifically, WebCore's) LGPL license-- we've sought legal counsel on this and believe we've satisfied the conditions. We are, nonetheless, planning to package up WebKit into a separate dynamic library in the near future.
We've recently updated to the latest Chromium trunk and will be launching an experimental, public build of our 1.7 branch soon. (Would have happened sooner but we've been focusing more on getting the library stable rather than absorbing new features.)
By the way, we do participate in the development of Chromium (albeit, rather covertly in IRC), I personally have been a long-time lurker of the mailing-list since the first month it opened. :-)
Regarding WebKit's (or, more specifically, WebCore's) LGPL license-- we've sought legal counsel on this and believe we've satisfied the conditions. We are, nonetheless, planning to package up WebKit into a separate dynamic library in the near future.