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This seems like it’s based on WebKit, parts of which are LGPL. Did they not modify it at all? (If so, why should I use this?) If they did, where is the code?

Edit: I think it’s at https://github.com/ultralight-ux/WebCore.

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UL uses a fork of WebCore/JavaScriptCore (the layout engine and JavaScript engine from WebKit). It is indeed modified (been working on it 7 years) and released open-source on GitHub.

I noticed that the old Awesomium domains now redirect to the UL page. Is UL an evolution of Awesomium, or did you sort of start anew?

Yep, We hit a wall when developing Awesomium-- long story short, the vision for Chromium long-term didn't match with our design goals so we announced to the community that we're starting over with something new (which turned out to be a minimal WebKit-port, eg. Ultralight).

From a business standpoint, we were offering paid commercial support for not just Awesomium but all the Chromium-related parts and that surface area had grown to be way too large to be maintainable. For the product to succeed we had to refocus efforts on building a solution we could fully own and met the requirements of our core market-- and that took about 6 years of R&D.

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