“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by Someone on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:31PM (#9681150)

Did they tell under what license? If they really want to mess things up, they would choose GPL2 without the 'or later' part, but my guess would be BSD, but Apache and Apple's Public Opensource License also are possible (http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/).

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by ptomato on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:46PM (#9681814)

https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=29 says OSI approved permissive license.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by whoosy on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:51PM (#9681860)

Swift will probably be integrated into LLVM which uses a mix of MIT and BSD called NCSA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois/NCSA_Ope...

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by eosrei on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:32PM (#9681672)

I'll be surprised if it is anything other than ASPL. ASPL isn't GPL compatible. Any GPL compatible license would be great.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by tjl on Monday June 08, 2015 @04:03PM (#9681978)

I'm fairly certain it will have the same license as LLVM given Swift's creator.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by rsynnott on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:40PM (#9683195)

They said "permissive". APSL is far from permissive.

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