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Re: So what is happening with Safari Patches?
by NeonDiet on Thursday 07/Oct/2004, @17:31
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Of cause it's possible to take as much of Apple's WebCore/JavaScriptCore source code as you like and do what you want with it. Create a KHTML 2.0 with it if you want.
However, the problem is not down to access to the code, or any kind of legal obstacle, it's purely man hours (or the current shortage of) on the KHTML devel side. That's not Apple's fault.
You seem to think that Apple should write for two different sets of source trees, just because they took the Open Source code from KDE in the first place. Why should they do that? They didn't ask the KDE team to re-write KHTML for them in the first place so they could easily integrate it into OSX. They did all the leg work themselves. Now they've merged that code into their own framework, and that's the framework they're writing to. The source code for WebCore/JavaScriptCore is Open Source, so others can take that and make use of it for themselves if they want to. That can be the KDE team, or someone completely different. That's what Open Source means!! What it doesn't mean, is that you have to write someone else's applications for them, as you seem to want. |
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