Apple Opens WebKit CVS and Bug Database (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

Apple Opens WebKit CVS and Bug Database (KDE.News)

Posted Jun 7, 2005 21:31 UTC (Tue) by henning (subscriber, #13406)
Parent article: Apple Opens WebKit CVS and Bug Database (KDE.News)

This is great news, as this allows the kde developer to better follow the changes that apple applies to webcore. I'm very glad that after the reported "divorce" between khtml and apple everybody seems to be happy again.

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Agree.

Posted Jun 8, 2005 13:06 UTC (Wed) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

>Well done, Apple, for even trying.

Well done, as in a steak or hamburger?

I'm sorry, I remain a bit skeptical about this.

Apple's original OS license was a real "All your code belongs to us"
license. (APSL v1) But then they did a good job taking the time to revamp the
license and come up with a very good legal basis for community development
of software (APSL v2) .

Then they took Safari, and all it's code, and closed it up. "All
your code belongs to us, thanks guys!".

Now, they are coming back around again.

Are they coming back around because there has been a change of heart?
(as it appears and is welcome) or are they coming back around
for another code harvest?

The other "All your code belongs to us, now bow down,,, " is not
the Apple way. That's someone elses way of doing business.

I really do like the "for even trying" remark. I feel that way about
Apple, pretty much always has, that somewhere down there, folks
are trying to do good. But many times bitten, ,

WebCore is LGPL, not APSL

Posted Jun 9, 2005 0:16 UTC (Thu) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link]

> Then they took Safari, and all it's code, and closed it up.

That is incorrect; KHTML is licensed under the LGPL, so "closing it up" would be copyright violation. WebCore is licensed under the union of the LGPL and a BSD-like license, not any version of the APSL.

As further proof of the openness of WebCore, there are at least two projects (this one and this one) which are forks of WebCore.

WebCore is LGPL, not APSL

Posted Jun 9, 2005 14:07 UTC (Thu) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

> Then they took Safari, and all it's code, and closed it up.

>>That is incorrect; KHTML is licensed under the LGPL,

You're right. I misrepresented that. Sorry.