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		stephenr on June 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? > 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.

loup-vaillant on June 18, 2015 [–]

If Apple holds any patent regarding Swift, there will be lots of strings attached. You just won't see those in the license itself.

stephenr on June 19, 2015 | [–]

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?

loup-vaillant on June 19, 2015 | | [–]

Oops. Forgot about patent grants.

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