Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?

Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by carussell on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:37AM (#9738401)

pyre already acknowledged that Apple now owns the code. The reason why CUPS is GPL+/LGPL+the Apple OS exception? Because Apple bought the rights to it and made it that way. Before that, it was GPL/LGPL.

So I'm not sure what you're getting at.

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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by Intermernet on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:49AM (#9738456)

I'm not getting at anything, I've always found that open-source "license exceptions" are the IP equivalent of a code-smell.

Nothing in particular, they just seem a bit strange.

You are of course, welcome to your own opinion.

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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by carussell on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:53AM (#9738480)

I read your comment as an attempted retort to pyre's.

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