“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by BinaryIdiot on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:35PM (#9681185)

I'm hopeful but until I see a license and what is and isn't opened sourced I'm going to be reserved.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by ptomato on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:45PM (#9681801)

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

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by cpr on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:30PM (#9681659)

One imagines it'll be liberally licensed like LLVM, which Chris Lattner also BDFLs. And they said it would be the compiler and the runtime for OS X, iOS, and (surprisingly) Linux.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by whoosy on Monday June 08, 2015 @03:44PM (#9681794)

I think it's most likely going to be integrated into LLVM so you are probably right.

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