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APSL is now approved by the FSF.

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Laukev7:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/news/2.0-announce.html

Excellent! This should shut up some anti-Apple trolls.

TheKnifeThrower:
Can someone tell me in simple terms what the APSL means. I know what the Gnu GPL means but I have no idea what the APSL is.

Laukev7:
Apple Public Source Licence. Basically just another free software licence similar to Netscape Public Licence. It used to be a non-free open source licence used by Apple for projects like Darwin and Rendezvous. It was dismissed by the FSF until a few hours ago with version 2.0. It remains incompatible with the GPL, though, and the FSF still does not appear to be fond of it. No surprises there; they are very picky, and they condemn almost anything that does not fully agree with them.

Pantso:
That should shut some mouths up. I always like to have the last laugh   :D

solo:

quote:An option to distribute source only to those receiving binaries, rather than always having to distribute to the general public
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Wait. What?

Are you telling me that now APSL allows the author to choose not to distribute source code to those without a binary copy?

As far as I can see, if this were put into practice at Darwin and they did not make binaries for free download, Apple has the right to not let you see the source code unless you own OSX (based on darwin).

Excuse me?? How does something like that get past Stallman with a clean bill of health?? I know this clause may mean nothing for Darwin and Apple's other APSL-licensed software but I think this should be unacceptable in a free-software license.

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