Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free Software Definition. The Open Source Definition allows for further restrictions like price, type of contribution and origin of the contribution, e.g. the case of the NASA Open Source Agreement, which requires the code to be "original" work.
The Apache Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation agree that the Apache License 2.0 is a free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License [5] (GPL) version 3, [2] meaning that code under GPLv3 and Apache License 2.0 can be combined, as long as the resulting software is licensed under the GPLv3. [6]
Academic Free License; Adaptive Public License; Apache License; Apache License 2.0; Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions; Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions; Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-Exception; Apple Public Source License; AROS Public License; Artistic License
The Apache Software Foundation wrote it for their Apache HTTP Server. Version 2, published in 2004, offers legal advantages over simple licenses and provides similar grants. [55] While the BSD and MIT licenses offer an implicit patent grant, [56] the Apache License includes a section on patents with an explicit grant from contributors. [57]
Initial free license Non-free license Forked replacement Notes Akka: 2009 2022 Apache-2.0: Business Source License [1] [2] ArangoDB: 2011 2023 Apache-2.0: Business Source License [3] Aseprite: 2001 2016 GPL-2.0: EULA that permits personal use but forbids redistribution [4] LibreSprite: CockroachDB: 2015 2019 Apache-2.0: Business Source License ...
The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, a permissive open-source license for free and open-source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license, which is to say that it allows developers, who ...
Version 2.0 of the ECL came out of the Licensing and Policy Summit [3] held in October 2006 in Indianapolis, Indiana where members of the academic community came together to address the concerns of releasing software written at an academic institution under a free/open source license.
While the creation of new licenses slowed down later, license proliferation and its impact are considered an ongoing serious challenge for the free and open-source ecosystem. From the free-software licenses, the GNU GPL version 2 has been tested in to court, first in Germany in 2004 and later in the US. In the German case the judge did not ...