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Re: How does GPL3 stack up against KHTML/Safari exploitation?
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: How does GPL3 stack up against KHTML/Safari exploitation? |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:49:25 +0200 |
* quanta:
> For those who don't remembered the incident, Apple developed its
> Safari based on KHTML's work, but Apple only distributed changes in
> large patches with little documentation, and refused to allow KHTML
> developer to look at the change logs maintained by Apple. How does
> GPL3 licence prevent such kind of abuse,
The GPLv3 does not require detailed changelogs. The requirements are
even below those of the GPLv2. I suspect that this just reflects
reality because most developers (not just Apple) did not pay attention
to that part of the GPLv2 anyway.