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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by thekingofh on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:31AM (#18998761)
I believe there is a flaw in the Apache License 2.0 here. If the patent grant only covers the code in question. If this is true, then it not only reinforces software patents, but reinforces implementations too.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by Semaphor on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:45AM (#18998903)
My understanding is, that the point is to make sure the users of the code don't have to care about patents. It's a license for the code, not for the patents.
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