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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/).


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


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...


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


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


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




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