The Unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit Begins

Jiilik Oiolosse writes to tell us Ars Technica is reporting that after years of existing seperately, KHTML and Webkit are finally coming back together. "In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort."

Comments

Re:Impact on Apple

[mpapet]

Apple is pretty much driving this one now. I think this quote from TFA is telling, "its improvements had become difficult to move back into KHTML"

Apple is free to do what they want within the confines of the licenses provided. The problems will arise when projects rely on Apple for their features. Specifically, the features apple is willing to share. One of the problems is Apple has no interest in keeping a GPL'd webkit fully functioning with tidy entry/exits for whatever proprietary things Apple wants to add. I can easily imagine Apple's GPL CUPS suffering the same fate.

Re:Boy lost in the Software.

[halivar]

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.