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Let's see if I have this right: Apple is patenting concepts in Swift then licensing it under Apache 2 in order to protect users of the language from patent trol
by mikece 8y ago
Let's see if I have this right: Apple is patenting concepts in Swift then licensing it under Apache 2 in order to protect users of the language from patent trolls.
So they are patenting something for our protection?
- petecox 8y agoApache will only protect the particular implementation, viz. LLVM. It does open the door for gcc to inadvertently develop similar functionality and get sued. Not that there's, afaik, a cleanroom implementation of Swift.
- russh 8y agoYes, lets hope they don't alter the terms of the deal (again) at a further date.