doesn't happen then the legal stuff starts up and people go to court and people get sued and it's really ugly and Wouldn't it be better if people would just follow the license so the GPL again removing legality from it the GPL requests that you make your code available and it sort of encourages collaboration and so on and When Apple is forced to do that they do it and we see that we've seen that before with khtml Khtml was KDE the KDE's desktops HTML rendering engine for conqueror and back in I don't know 2004 2005 ish Apple got a clone of khtml and Rebranded it as WebKit and it is what runs most of the browsers these days it is it is hugely of an influential project and I mean it's a pity that it got rebranded I guess but But the history is there and they have Complyed with the license and contributed back and it is it continues to be an open source project and so on so That's that's a big deal and we see Regularly as with curl that the more permissive licenses simply don't get the (16/53)
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