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Saying Apple open sourced WebKit is a pretty funny way of seeing things.
by turbinerneiter 6y ago
Saying 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.