DFSG compatible No OSI approved Yes | FSF approved No | |
The Sybase Open Watcom Public Licence is a software license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative. It is the licence under which the Open Watcom C/C++ compiler is released.
The license has not been accepted as "free" under the Debian Free Software Guidelines, due to the license's termination clauses.
The Free Software Foundation has stated that the license is not free as it requires the source to be published when you "deploy" the software, including private use.
The Fedora project also considers the license as non free, citing the FSF argumentation.
History
The draft of version 2.0 of the Licence was published on 20 January 2004. This version incorporated changes from Apple and made the licence less specific to OpenWatcom.
References
Sybase Open Watcom Public License Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA