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Adaptive Public License

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Adaptive Public License
AuthorUniversity of Victoria
SPDX identifierAPL-1.0
Debian FSG compatible?
FSF approved?
OSI approvedYes
GPL compatible?
CopyleftYes
Linking from code with a different licence?
Websiteopensource.org/licenses/APL-1.0 Edit this on Wikidata

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

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