A few details about iPhone WebKit Source Code

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On May 10, 2011

Late¬† last week, Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber made sure that they will focus to that fact that Apple had yet to launch¬† the source code for components of its iOS 4.3 WebKit implementation as required under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) due to Apple’s use of LGPL code in the project.Initiallym Apple has¬† released iOS 4.3 on March 10th, and LGPL licensing requires that the source code has to be released in the same time with the functional binaries.

 

Reports are suggesting  that this is not the first time  when Apple got blocked in releasing source code claimed to be made public, although the company has a support system in place for open source code projects and its engineers have contributed to a number of such projects over the years.
As noted by TUAw, Apple has finally relented under the increasing  pressure and posted  the claimed source code for JavaScriptCore and WebCore for all iOS versions through the latest iOS 4.3.3 pushed out last week.

 

via @macrumors