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I see this as an hilarious welcome joke from the community : https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/17

Its developer's way to say FIRST

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No. This is a childish joke, and inappropriate. As a community of professionals, we should do everything we can to discourage this kind of crap.

Joe Cumbo (mooman219), I hope you never apply for a job I'm the hiring manager for, because I would never hire you after seeing this kind of unprofessionalism in your Github profile.

I wouldn't want to work for a company that cannot take a joke. The PR was sent around apple software engineering today and they got a kick out of it.

I likely agree with your sentiment, but I'm afraid I'm too ignorant to even realize there is any attempt at a joke. For my understanding of the culture, would someone mind explaining?

Apple doesn't like the GPL3 and has refused to upgrade many key MacOS components (like bash) that have migrated from GPL2 to GPL3.

And I would never want to work for you if you've such a dearth of humor :P

Exactly how is this inappropriate?

A company that is traditionally hostile to open source gets as one of its first "contributions" to a newly opened project a troll, confirming a bad stereotype of the open source community.

How could that not be considered inappropriate?

Apple is in now way hostile to OSS.

What was the tongue face for?

I don't get it, can you explain? I don't know much about licensing...

Well i'm by far not an expert. But a lot of people consider that GPL is an open but maybe too restrictive licence.

Notably, "derived works" using GPL copylefted code must be redistributed under same licence. So basicaly if you consider that Swift is a key component of OSX... This is just not something Apple can accept right now.

Beside I'm not even sure a Licence switch from Apache2 is possible without consent of all contributors. And most definitively a Licence switch can in no way be decided via a Pull Request :P

Feel free to correct me if I missed a point ;)

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