[citation][nom]ibnmuhammad[/nom]I'd like to think there's genuinely a valid reason for forking AppleWebKit, but something tells me, Google being who they are that...Like chunks of Android code, it will become closed-source and riddled with Google spyware / phone-home code which they couldn't place in WebKit - due to Apple and community supervision.Oh well, another Google spyware on top of Android / Chrome / Doubleclick / Analytics / Google+ / DNS AdSense / Mail / Search / etc.What's the common element here?Google only create a product if they can get more data on individuals and their personal habits, location, pictures, etc.[/citation]
Blink will never be closed source, at least not completely, for the same reason WebKit won't be completely closed source. Blink is a for of WebKit and in turn WebKit is a fork of KHTML and KJS. Since KHTML and KJS have a GNU LGPL license, this will force that both WebKit and Blink also use a GNU LGPL license (for the rendering and javascript engine).