Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by toyg on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:44AM (#25251547)

If i remember correctly KDE used to be GPL when webkit started, and was later relicensed. The difference is relatively irrelevant anyway, the way they used KHTML they would have had to release sources even under LGPL. Had KDE used BSD, MIT, or Apache, back then, we likely wouldn't have had webkit.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by robin_reala on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:48AM (#25251918)

I’m trying to find a specific commit to disprove this, but that’s not my recollection. Certainly this blog post from 2005 indicates LGPL: https://web.archive.org/web/20050428230122/http://www.kdedev...

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by toyg on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:15AM (#25252061)

You might be right. Still, it shows the Apple attitude at the time, and how the license helped changing their ways. Note how the post complains they are simply using OSX apis... without the modification-release clauses, webkit as a reusable library would never have happened.

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