I'm no lawyer, but I think the Apache2 license on Swift would mean that the JS community has access to the patent. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/L

I'm no lawyer, but I think the Apache2 license on Swift would mean that the JS community has access to the patent. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/LICENSE.txt TC39 (who defines Javascript) is a collaboration of several companies, so I'm not sure who Apple could/would even sue if this was proposed and adopted for JS. I doubt we would see legal activity over it.