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[Sam Morris]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
>>What's wrong with the APSL (I haven't read it... I'm guessing here)?
> 
> It's a little wonky, but section 9.1 seems to be a real sticking point: 
> http://perens.com/Articles/APSL.html

I believe that's rather out of date. The most recent version of the APSL 
is version 2.0, dated August 2003. From 
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html>:

"The Apple Public Source License (APSL) version 2.0 qualifies as a free 
software license. Apple's lawyers worked with the FSF to produce a 
license that would qualify. ... The FSF now considers the APSL to be a 
free software license with two major practical problems, reminiscent of 
the NPL:

     * It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other
       files which may be entirely proprietary.
     * It is incompatible with the GPL."

Debian-legal has reviewed the APSL 2.0, in 
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg00527.html>. It seems 
that the reason it is incompatible with the GPL, is also the reason it 
can not be considered DFSG-Free: it requires users of its software to 
distribute the source code available under certain circumstances.

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