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This is what I'm guessing as well, but unless Apple uses heavily customized versions of WebCore for their iOS releases, this seems like a decidedly trivial violation. Doesn't excuse Apple, but hardly worth all this fuss.

Also, seriously, downvoting both GHFigs' and xentronium's comments is pretty lame, folks. (Feel free to downvote mine: I'll never see the score.)

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The LGPL requires that I am able to take Apple's provided source code, make my own modifications, and somehow compile/link the result into the program that is using the binary build.

And, for the record: Apple's provided source code (which /is/ heavily modified for the iPhone), when they do provide it, isn't even complete enough to compile (it is missing a bunch of code for the WAK* classes), so Apple has simply never been in compliance with this license.

I was under the impression that they do use a heavily customized version of WebCore.

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