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> You seem to be making the argument that Apple just decided to base WebKit on KHTML without much concern for the licensing implications

No.

I'm saying 'we used something OSS! Then we decided to make it OSS!' is either nonsensical or misleading.

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Well, I tried my best.

I didn't think it was that hard to understand. Do you get what I'm saying now?

I've always gotten what you've been saying. You seem to be completely incapable of getting what I'm saying. And I'm certain you have to ability to get what I'm saying, but I think you just really, really don't want to. Or you're trolling. Not really sure at this point.

>>> You seem to be making the argument that Apple just decided to base WebKit on KHTML without much concern for the licensing implications

>I've always gotten what you've been saying.

Clearly you haven't.

OTOH, if you think I've misunderstood or mischaracterized anything you've said, you haven't said so.

Anyway, I give up.

You're saying Apple decided to open source WebKit before deciding what to base it on.

He's saying that because KHTML's LGPL was going to force them to open source WebKit in any case, it's either nonsensical or misleading for Steve to say that Apple "put it into open source".

I didn't remember that LGPL wasn't commercially "safe".

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