Re: Substitute classes

[David Chisnall]

On 17 Mar 2011, at 14:12, David Ayers wrote:

> This is also no legal advice, but from
> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit/LICENSE
> I gather that Apple is the copyright holder of WebKit. If that is truly
> the case, Apple is not bound by the LGPL.  They have the right to do
> whatever they please.  It is merely the license by which Apple's users
> are bound by.

WebKit means two things.  It means the Objective-C framework, and it means the 
umbrella project.  The Objective-C framework is written and owned by Apple.  
The umbrella project includes things like WebCore - which does the real work of 
HTML parsing / layout - that the WebKit framework link against.  WebCore was 
originally KHTML (part of the KDE project), and has accepted contributions 
since then by companies like Adobe, Nokia, Google, and so on.  WebCore is 
LGPL'd and is not owned (exclusively) by Apple.  When people talk about WebKit, 
they usually mean the umbrella project - Chrome doesn't actually use 
WebKit-the-framework, it just uses the things that WebKit-the-framework wraps.

David

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