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Re:WebKit: An Objective View by plorkyeran on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:42AM (#5220259)
One of the Opera engineers has commented on this. They did talk about it, and concluded that it'd be about a year of work to usefully open source Presto. It has licensed third-party components that would need to be replaced, so they can't even just do a code dump.
Re:WebKit: An Objective View by udp on Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:49PM (#5220684)
They could just release an unusable copy without the third-party components, and leave the replacement to the community.
Re:WebKit: An Objective View by daxelrod on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:39PM (#5222044)
You're assuming those components are cleanly separated from the rest of the codebase. Especially if they were modified, this is not necessarily easy to determine.