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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]
The OSI recommends a mix of permissive and copyleft licenses, the Apache License 2.0, 2- & 3-clause BSD license, GPL, LGPL, MIT license, MPL 2.0, CDDL and EPL. License and version FSF approval
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]
EDUCAUSE (Ref 2 below) says of the ECL, "It is essentially the Apache 2.0 license with a modification of the patent language to make it workable for many colleges and universities." The two patent clauses are reproduced below. The Apache licence patent clause states: "3. Grant of Patent License.
Academic Free 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
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.
The Apache HTTP Server (/ ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / ə-PATCH-ee) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.It is developed and maintained by a community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.