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WebKit doesn't count because they were forced to contribute back as KHTML was LGPL. I know they have rewritten big parts of it under the BSD license, but given
by patrickaljord 16y ago
WebKit doesn't count because they were forced to contribute back as KHTML was LGPL. I know they have rewritten big parts of it under the BSD license, but given that Google (and others) commits constitutes more than 50% of the webkit contributions today, it wouldn't make sense for Apple to stop contributing their changes.
- rbanffy 16y ago> WebKit doesn't count because they were forced to contribute back as KHTML was LGPL Curiously, I don't remember them being "forced" to use KHTML as their starting point...
- patrickaljord 16y agoI never said they were forced to use khtml, I said because they chose khtml they were forced to contribute back because it's under the LGPL.
- rbanffy 16y agoSorry. I got the whole wrong. That's what I get for replying a post and having a conversation about it with someone in the same room ;-)
- X-Istence 16y agoWhile Google at the moment may be committing 50% of the contributions and patches, I would like to point out that Apple has its internal branch of WebKit that they are working on, and when the time comes for a public release there is a ramp up in the WebKit commits on Apple's behalf. This has been documented before. See here for a nice chart where you can see those jumps in commits: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/06/google-apple-webkit/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/06/google-apple-webkit/