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Have you kept up with what Apple's done with WebKit since 2002?

(Yes, clearly Google has contributed a lot of open source code too).



I don't mean to discredit Apple's contributions, but your comments seem to suggest to me that WebKit remains open source for benevolent reasons.

They built the project on KHTML so they wouldn't have to start from scratch. And because KHTML is under the LGPL, WebKit will have to remain open source unless they removed all KHTML-related code, which I'm sure is not worth the investment.


WebKit was closed from 2002-2005 (except for the LGPL components). WebCore and JavaScriptCore are LGPL, everything else is BSD.

http://dot.kde.org/2005/06/07/apple-opens-webkit-cvs-and-bug...

This isn't to suggest Apple is benevolent. There are plenty of good strategic and practical reasons for this decision.


Have you kept at what KDE's done with WebKit before 2002 and what Google and many others have done with WebKit?


Nope! What's your point?




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