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Cue	2012-05-31 , 09:51
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Originally Posted by gerbick

I know, I know... there are plenty of others, but Apple does that with webkit and Safari.

But safari is pretty much closed, see the following:

WebKit itself was also released as open source. The source code for non-renderer aspects of the browser, such as its GUI elements, remains proprietary.

what you describe is actually common with KHTML/webkit

For example:
https://products.sel.sony.com/openso...e_webkit.shtml

Apple make little to no money from it, though it originated from Apple which itself originated from KHTML.

Edit: Just to elaborate a little about what I mean, Webkit must remain open source because it's a fork of KHTML which is under a copyleft LGPL. KHTML deforked into WebKit again too. Any browser with a Webkit layout engine will also have their source available. Including the fork that Nokia produced for S60 devices. It does not mean the browser is open source.

Last edited by Cue; 2012-05-31 at 14:35.