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Re:No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store by patrickaljord on Saturday January 08, 2011 @04:12PM (#2083971)
WebKit doesn't count because they were forced to contribute back as KHTML was LGPL. I know they have rewritten big parts of it under the BSD license, but given that Google (and others) commits constitutes more than 50% of the webkit contributions today, it wouldn't make sense for Apple to stop contributing their changes.
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Re:No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store by X-Istence on Sunday January 09, 2011 @02:42AM (#2085097)
While Google at the moment may be committing 50% of the contributions and patches, I would like to point out that Apple has its internal branch of WebKit that they are working on, and when the time comes for a public release there is a ramp up in the WebKit commits on Apple's behalf. This has been documented before.

See here for a nice chart where you can see those jumps in commits: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/06/google-apple-webkit/

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Re:No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store by rbanffy on Saturday January 08, 2011 @11:56PM (#2084853)
> WebKit doesn't count because they were forced to contribute back as KHTML was LGPL

Curiously, I don't remember them being "forced" to use KHTML as their starting point...

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Re:No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store by patrickaljord on Sunday January 09, 2011 @01:06AM (#2084976)
I never said they were forced to use khtml, I said because they chose khtml they were forced to contribute back because it's under the LGPL.
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Re:No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store by rbanffy on Sunday January 09, 2011 @03:36PM (#2086341)
Sorry. I got the whole wrong. That's what I get for replying a post and having a conversation about it with someone in the same room ;-)
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