Objective-C was not created by Apple.

pjmlp · on May 9, 2012

It has created by NeXT, which was bough by Apple, thus Apple holds the language copyright.

dchest · on May 9, 2012

It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History

There's no such thing as language copyright.

pjmlp · on May 10, 2012

A programming language is under copyright of the creator. , which can decide to put it in public domain, standardize it, give an open source license to it, whatever.

While NeXT did not exactly created Objective-C, it acquired a license to be able to create their own implementation, which became the official Objective-C compiler.

Plus, lets see what is the outcome of the Oracle vs Google trial regarding copyright.

dchest · on May 10, 2012

A programming language is under copyright of the creator. , which can decide to put it in public domain, standardize it, give an open source license to it, whatever.

Implementation -- yes, the language itself -- no.

podperson · on May 9, 2012

Not exactly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C