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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess Chromium isn't fully BSD. This could be the reason. Although I'd think reimplementing the non-BSD bits in Chromium would be less work than reimplementing all the bits, including the BSD ones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Chromium and WebKit both still have bits from KHTML in them which is LGPL