sanjeevrad

Libraries like STL (which Chromium code uses extensively) and boost are lower-level. Chromium has much higher level abstracts.

Yes, Chromium would be the technically correct usage, I used Chrome as it is the more familiar term.

I'm not sure what you mean by "optimized for use in browsers". I can't speak to the other 2, but Chromium is basically a vast collection of C++ cross-platform libraries that can be used in many applications.

Will keep that in mind for my next post, thanks.

The core Chromium codebase itself uses the same license (a BSD-style license). Chromium itself uses certain other third-party libraries that have different licenses.

Qt is a higher-level application dev framework with UI support (like MFC but cross-platform). We were looking for lower-level constructs - especially in the networking and P2P areas.

You would only link with the net library (and its dependent libraries - like base and crypto)