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Chrome doesn't use WebKit. Google forked WK many years ago into Blink [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

I see that the fork is of WebCore rather than WebKit. Since both are LGPL any forks would also be opensource but with forking WebCore rather than WebKit the thing that uses WebCore doesn't have to be open.

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