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Re:Swift is Open Source by thescriptkiddie on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:41PM (#10672010)
In all seriousness, I'm not sure they could switch it to GPLv3. I think that Apple's firmware signing might run afoul of the anti-tivoization clause and prevent them from shipping Swift on Macs. IANAL
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Re:Swift is Open Source by avar on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:04PM (#10672188)
Apple seems to think so, which is why all their GNU tools are frozen at their GPLv2 versions.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by mkesper on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:20PM (#10672289)
Apache2 is compatible with GNU GPLv3, though.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by thescriptkiddie on Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:44PM (#10672890)
Compatible doesn't mean equivalent. GPLv2, AGPL, and LGPL are all compatible with GPLv3, but they don't have the same terms.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by dragonwriter on Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:48PM (#10672918)
GPLv2+ (GPLv2 with the optional "or any later version" language) is compatible with GPLv3, but GPLv2 is not otherwise compatible with GPLv3 (e.g., Linux is under GPLv2, and not GPLv3 compatible.)
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