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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
(ladybird.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
Chromium and WebKit both still have bits from KHTML in them which is LGPL