Chrome is built with Blink, which is based on Safari's WebKit, which was based on KDE's KHTML, which was released under the LGPL.
I wonder if Chrome would exist today if KHTML was GPL instead.
("Google would have just built a browser from scratch" considering the reality of 2008 isn't such an obvious proposition, IMO.)
@hisham_hm this could be the case of webkit too.
I'm curious about how Servo will develop
@hisham_hm They could probably have used Gecko instead.
By the way Apple clearly circumvented the LGPL in the early WebKit days...
@catwell I wonder if the optics of "forking Firefox" would have been different.
I don't recall the details of Apple's circumvention of the LGPL... what do you mean by that? I mean, they opened up their changes to the library and bundled it in a proprietary app. That's what the LGPL is about, right?
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