Just pointing out there's a whole family of HTML engines, and Webkit wasn't the origin. It's also likely that it's the reason why Webkit is GPL, and we're able to have this discussion.
In my experience, Apple haven't exactly been very open-source friendly - I know working with them there's a rejection of any GPL dependencies, even if well separated and unmodified, or even just tools used in the build process if they're GPL3+.
I don't doubt if Apple developed a html engine from scratch it would use a different license, and the entire landscape of browsers would look very different today.
In my experience, Apple haven't exactly been very open-source friendly - I know working with them there's a rejection of any GPL dependencies, even if well separated and unmodified, or even just tools used in the build process if they're GPL3+.
I don't doubt if Apple developed a html engine from scratch it would use a different license, and the entire landscape of browsers would look very different today.