>From what I'm seeing in the mobile market, both from devices and the content push, the world needs webkit on a lot of handhelds! Our economic survival might just rely on it. Heh, but who's getting gubbermint grants for webkit? ;)
Ben On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:13 PM, marbux <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ben Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sounds cool, but does this smell like StarOffice & Sun, to anyone else?? >> WebKit is good, though -- just wondering whether this is really a case >> of open source benefiting from proprietary code, or vice versa... > > I'm wary of it. I think there's that kind of danger any time you have > folks answering to stockholders in the code stewardship role on an > open source project whose code base plays the crippleware role to a > proprietary product. > > OTOH, the Chromium-unique code is BSD-licensed, so no legal barriers > to recycling the code under other licenses such as the Gnu licenses. > But note that Chromium comes with some third party code issued under > other licenses. <http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html#3rdparty>. > The ones I'm familiar with pose no barrier to recycling under other > licenses as I recall, but there are a couple that I haven't studied. > > I haven't investigated the Chromium Project in depth. But my nose > tells me to be more interested long term in what KDE does in regard to > WebKit. They've been contributing WebKit patches and there were some > rumbles awhile back that KDE is moving toward deprecating KHTML in > favor of WebKit. I haven't checked to see if that's true. > > There's no crippleware business model and no vendor brutally > controlling the KDE code base that I know of. :-) So I'm guessing that > a KDE branch might be the WebKit wagon that winds up with the FOSS > Clydesdale hitched to it. But that's only a guess. Time will tell. > > Best regards, > > Paul > > > -- > Universal Interoperability Council > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
