On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 09:33 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > the KHTML people are pissed off with Apple ( who use KHTML in Safari ) > for not following the 'spirit' of the GPL and detailing their changes in > change logs, patches, etc, and actually participating in the community.
If I remember the KHTML/Safari debacle properly, the KHTML developers weren't so much pissed off with Apple as they were at those in the community who criticized the KHTML project for not merging the "patches" that Apple produced. I think the KHTML hackers realize they can't justifiably be angry at Apple as long as Apple follows the letter of the license. Apple wasn't releasing code in a form usable to KHTML (at the time, at least -- I believe some things may have changed), but they were still fulfilling their obligation to release it. The KHTML hackers were frustrated at _others_ who suggested they were negligent (or lazy or incompetent or whatever) for not merging that code. Cheers, Jason.
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