News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple is patenting Swift features. Parent comment

Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by smaddox on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:56PM (#19002911)
Exactly! Apache 2 may protect users of Swift from suits for use of Swift itself, but it does not protect everyone else from suits for use of the concept elsewhere.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by maxdesiatov on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:09PM (#19003025)
Including from suits from Apple itself for using concepts of Swift elsewhere in projects that were developed from scratch, not forked from Apple's projects, right?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by AsyncAwait on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:14PM (#19003073)
Yes, that is my understanding.
[ Parent | on HN ]