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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by stephenr on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:33AM (#9737888)
> I completely disagree with other commenters in this thread that we have some obligation to be thankful for companies for putting out things with strings attached.

Swift will be released under a permissive licence, which has literally no strings attached - you can use the software however you like. Unlike the GPL, which has a very explicit string attached.

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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by loup-vaillant on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:03PM (#9741887)
If Apple holds any patent regarding Swift, there will be lots of strings attached. You just won't see those in the license itself.
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by stephenr on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:18PM (#9742569)
Apples open source licence specifically mentions patent grants. Why would you assume they won't do the same (or use that exact licence) for swift?
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by loup-vaillant on Friday June 19, 2015 @07:09AM (#9744004)
Oops. Forgot about patent grants.
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