Apple is patenting Swift features

Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by bad_user on Friday January 25, 2019 @09:53AM (#18998357)

The Apache license covers derived works.

So if you fork Swift, you’re covered. If you don’t form Swift, then you’re not covered.

Note that the Apache license is much stronger / better than the PATENTS.txt files accompanying projects like those from Microsoft / Facebook, because those usually don’t cover forks and are designed to protect the parent company.

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by _bxg1 on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:15AM (#18999276)

And what about languages like JavaScript and Kotlin which have already integrated the optional-chaining operator themselves?

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by solarkraft on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:11AM (#18998581)

This is interesting because it raises questions about what is a fork. Can I fork Swift and throw out everything except for the patented part and then merge it with my project?

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by criddell on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:42AM (#18998874)

Judges don't typically fall for stuff like that. Just because you created something by using the fork process, the end result after your giant purge isn't recognizable as a fork of Swift.

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