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Webkit has to be run in the open; it's originally based on KHTML and inherits its LGPL.
by anatoly 16y ago
Webkit has to be run in the open; it's originally based on KHTML and inherits its LGPL.
- danudey 16y agoWebCore and JavaScriptCore are based off KHTML and KJS, but WebKit (which unites the two into a usable API) is Apple code and doesn't have to be open source (it was closed source until 2005).
- glhaynes 16y agoAnd this fact was known when they picked KHTML to build on.
- astrange 16y agoIt doesn't have to be run in the open; they have to release the source whenever they release a new Safari update, but they don't have to do project administration in public or let anyone else access their SVN. This is how several of the Darwin opensource projects work, notably Apple's gcc branch and the kernel.