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It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History There's no such thing as langua
by dchest 15y ago
It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History
There's no such thing as language copyright.
- pjmlp 15y agoA programming language is under copyright of the creator. , which can decide to put it in public domain, standardize it, give an open source license to it, whatever. While NeXT did not exactly created Objective-C, it acquired a license to be able to create their own implementation, which became the official Objective-C compiler. Plus, lets see what is the outcome of the Oracle vs Google trial regarding copyright.
- dchest 15y agoA programming language is under copyright of the creator. , which can decide to put it in public domain, standardize it, give an open source license to it, whatever. Implementation -- yes, the language itself -- no.