Apple's mobile phone language Swift has some sort of "optionals chaining" that Apple finds novel enough to patent.
From the discussion, it appears Apple is intentionally using an Apache 2 license to ensure that access to this feature remains freely available. (Insert obligatory IANAL disclaimer.) Any Soylentils care to weigh in?
https://forums.swift.org/t/apple-is-indeed-patenting-swift-features/19779
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday January 28 2019, @03:18PM (1 child)
this looks a *really* common logic expression - what *exactly* is the patent for in swift?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:07AM
Feel free to decipher it [google.com] yourself. I can't stand patentese.