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> Webkit and Swift I get, they are two major projects started and maintained by Apple people True, though I would add that WebKit is a fork of KHTML and KJS, K

by jraph 5y ago

> Webkit and Swift I get, they are two major projects started and maintained by Apple people True, though I would add that WebKit is a fork of KHTML and KJS, KDE's browser and JavaScript engine. Apple had to keep distributing the source code since KHTML and KJS are LGPL.

GeekyBear 5y ago
Chrome is not just based on a Webkit fork, it's also compiled with Apple's open sourced Clang compiler.
pxc 5y ago
And Apple made no effort whatsoever to coordinate with KDE upstream IIRC. It was not the good kind of fork