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> jordigh on March 6, 2015 > They're basically achieving their dream now with Swift, though. I don't expect them to ever release that source. I don't think the
by jaytaylor 5y ago
> jordigh on March 6, 2015
> They're basically achieving their dream now with Swift, though. I don't expect them to ever release that source. I don't think there is any precedent for Apple releasing source code after the fact.
I wonder, to what degree is this still the case today? Has Apple's position on Open Source changed in the past half+ decade?
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoI don’t think it’s changed about GPL: GPL3 made things even less friendly to what they want, so they’ve started doing things like switching to zsh instead of bash. LLVM/Swift are open-sourced, but not GPL