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		csharperer on Feb 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silver: A free implementation of Swift for .NET, J... What are the legalities?

throwaway1xx2 on Feb 9, 2015 [–]

Swift is just a language specification. It cannot be patented or copyright-ed. Anyone is free to make tools around the language specification. Just like there are many compilers for C/C++ on different platforms, we intend to make one for Swift on Linux/Windows.

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