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Adaptive Public License

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University of Victoria

FSF approved
  
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GPL compatible
  
?

DFSG compatible
  
?

OSI approved
  
Yes

Copyleft
  
Yes

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

  • Cheat Engine
  • Darwin – online recruitment software
  • MusicDNS
  • SwisTrack

    • References

    Adaptive Public License Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA