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coolspot on Feb 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

WebKit started as KDE’s KHTML/KJS and LLVM started as a research project at Univeristy of Illinois.

Apple took the code and extended it, they had little choice for the source code license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

saagarjha on Feb 12, 2021 [–]

They could have just not taken the code, though…

nsonha on Feb 14, 2021 | [–]

yeah, they're doing the world a favour by taking the code and conform to its licence, as opposed to... developing a new browser engine which is... easier?

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