[olug] Chrome

[Will Langford]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:23 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
> > If I had to take a guess, I would point out that QT is GPL and Google
> tends
> > to keep their open source code commercial friendly. They favor the BSD
> and
> > Apache licenses.
>
> KDE builds upon GPL with LGPL kdelibs.  Webkit is GPL, and that didn't
> stop Google from building Chrome on top of it.
>

Google claims Webkit is not GPL but rather LGPL:

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=100336

Excerpt:

webkit is licensed as follows:
------------------------------

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights
reserved.

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