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Maybe not Safari, but they have open sourced WebKit and a lot of kernel modules and other useful things: https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ https://develop
by alexfromapex 6y ago
Maybe not Safari, but they have open sourced WebKit and a lot of kernel modules and other useful things: https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675763
- immigrantsheep 6y agoAnd Microsoft has open sourced at lot as well. So? Why should any of them open source everything?
- turbinerneiter 6y agoSaying Apple open sourced WebKit is a pretty funny way of seeing things.
- jsjohnst 6y agoExactly, it was open source before Apple came along. Guess GP didn’t realize that WebKit is a fork of KHTML from KDE which was LGPL licensed (if memory serves).
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThey've been pretty good stewards though, for a long time. I don't know how much of it is lip-service, but webkit.org talks about using webkit on non-Apple platforms, and webkit-gtk gets discussed on their mailing list. It feels to me like a truly collaborative open-source project, in a way that's unlike most of what Apple does. Again, I don't know how much of this is an aberration, but I've always been impressed with the whole thing.
- heavyset_go 6y agoWebKit was forked from the LGPL KHTML. Unless Apple wanted to get sued and lose, they needed to release WebKit under the terms of the original code.