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Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-you-can-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A month after Safari , and after a lot of controversy, Allan Sandfeld Jensen announced today that Konqueror passes the Acid2 test too. Half of the patches could be merged from Apple's Webcore, the rest needed to be rewritten from scratch."

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  1. Re:Any more news on GPL violating? by Saven+Marek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple could still be doing alot more and still be within the bounds of the license, and I think they should be

  2. Re:The GPL was *NOT* violated by Apple by Saven+Marek · · Score: 0, Troll

    *Sigh* Just because you want more from (whoever, Apple in this case), it doesn't give you the right to demand more than is required by the terms of any given contract or licence. It certainly doesn't give you the right to accuse them of breaking those terms when you're fully aware that they haven't.

    Well maybe we differ there but I see it as an abuse of the GPL for apple to make it do something that it wasnt designed to.

    For example, it was designed to make sure people who use GPL code from somewhere give back by releasing their changes & source for what they release

    And technically apple have done everything but "give back" properly. they have taken a very loose definition of give back.

    Unfortunately the GPL allows that but it wasn't designed to

    And I see that as a big Abuse of GPL