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Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language by dchest on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @05:53PM (#3950672)
It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History

There's no such thing as language copyright.

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Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language by pjmlp on Thursday May 10, 2012 @02:30AM (#3952139)
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.

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Re:C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language by dchest on Thursday May 10, 2012 @06:31AM (#3952723)
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.

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