Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language
by ams6110 on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:32PM
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Objective-C was not created by Apple.
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Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language
by pjmlp on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @04:18PM
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It has created by NeXT, which was bough by Apple, thus Apple holds the language copyright.
Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language
by dchest on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:53PM
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It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History
There's no such thing as language copyright.
Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language
by pjmlp on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:30AM
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A 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.
Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language
by dchest on Thursday May 10, 2012 @06:31AM
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A 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.