Author | University of Victoria |
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SPDX identifier | APL-1.0 |
Debian FSG compatible | ? |
FSF approved | ? |
OSI approved | Yes |
GPL compatible | ? |
Copyleft | Yes |
Linking from code with a different licence | ? |
Website | opensource |
The Adaptive Public License (APL) is an open-source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.
The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the license conditions for that project by choosing their specific options from the license template. Choices include:
- whether or not to grant patent rights
- governing jurisdiction
- limited attribution and branding clauses
- the scope of how widely the source can be distributed before being obliged to contribute code changes
- the extent to which changes need to be documented
Selected programs licensed under the APL
External links
- The Adaptive Public License Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
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