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> And yet KHTML was forked into WebKit which was forked into Blink, just to name one. Bad example. KHTML was LGPL-licensed when Apple forked it (looking at htt

> And yet KHTML was forked into WebKit which was forked into Blink, just to name one. Bad example. KHTML was LGPL-licensed when Apple forked it (looking at https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/khtml https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/khtml, it may be dual LPGPLv2/GPLv3 or later licensed now). That probably is _the_ reason WebKit always was open source.

afiori 4y ago
Maybe bad example, but it reinforces the position. Had KHTML been MIT WebKit would have been likely (more) closed source.
riffraff 4y ago
but I am not arguing that MIT is bad, I like it. I am arguing that "companies don't fork things" is false.