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Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved

Posted by timothy on from the join-us-now-and-free-the-software dept.

BWJones writes "Apple has now made their public source license 2.0 free. From the release "The Darwin team at Apple is pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the Apple Public Source License has been certified as a 'Free Software License.' APSL 2.0 includes numerous changes and simplifications to make it even easier to use Apple Open Source software as part of your programs. To indicate acceptance of APSL 2.0, you can now use your new or existing "Apple ID", rather than having a separate Darwin account."" proclus adds "This is great news for Darwin-based free software projects like The GNU-Darwin Distribution and Fink. GNU-Darwin has had an ongoing discussion about this development, and annouced and end to our 'Free Darwin Campaign,' so long as Apple avoids DMCA-based legal action."

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  1. Re:another writeup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    don't forget, it's christmas time!

  2. Apple Publicity by brokencomputer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It is interesting that Apple makes no mention on thier home page about this change. I think this might be because they already have the general public believing that they are open source and telling us now that twhey erent open source until now will cause the gen. public to get annoyed or untrustworthy of apple.

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    1. Re:Apple Publicity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Um, I doubt the "general public" gives a shit.

    2. Re:Apple Publicity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      that's the dumbest fucking thing I've read on slashdot in recent history.

    3. Re:Apple Publicity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      No doubt you have a long and distinguished career in reading "dumb fucking things" on slashdot. Perhaps you should recieve an award of some kind for your acute obsvervational skills in the realm of dumb-fucking-thing-dom.

  3. Right and wrong by poptones · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Life is so much simpler when you don't have shareholders, boards of directors, lawyers and... well, money.

    Right, it is. That's why this is a joke of a "free" license. You have to "have an ID" to "accept" terms of the license? Contributing to this "free" code is the closest you can come to being Apple's indentured servent. This does bring with it all sorts of "free" connotations, unfortunately none of them really embody what freedom is supposed to be about.

  4. Re:Apple is giving people what they want by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple is like that gorgeous woman at the party...

    Sure, the one with the suspiciously deep voice and pronounced Adam's Apple.

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  5. Re:Apple good? by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Patents are good. Without them, there would be no innovation.

    Your spelling is atrocious! That should read:
    Patents are
    greed. Without them, there would be no starvation

  6. attn procleus: fuck off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    why do the slashdot janitors give that cocksucking blowhard procleus any attention? creating an operating system on top of Apple's Darwin and then bitching about Apple is a sure sign of intelligence.


    Check out his geocities homepage if you want a good laugh sometime. I hope his coding skills are better than his html design skills. Then again, GNU/Darwin (sic.) doesn't have any original code.

  7. Re:Long arm of open source community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    re: Little people influencing very large companies.

    dream on crack whore. sco will win, be bought by ms and then all the leenooks dbags wont have a pot to piss in.

    talk about a wonderful future :)

  8. Re:How to suck cock (or how to get your cock sucke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is an Apple topic. If there's one thing the mactards know how to do, it's suck cock. I think you've wasted your time.

  9. Re:Apple is giving people what they want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yep, as someone pointed out, Apple products are mid-to-high end consumer products. Apple doesn't sell $200 PCs or $600 laptops. But if you ask me, $1000 for an iBook is still inexpensive, especially when you start looking at other notebooks that have comparable components and battery life. You get a discount as a student too, and they often have promotions. I think right now they're doing a bundle deal (at least for students), where they give you a rebate on a printer and iPod, but I don't remember the details.

    I really can't agree with the statements people make about Apple's prices. I mean, I've never bought a $200 PC, but I don't think I'd want to use one of those as my main machine anyways (more like a cheap web/file server). And from what I've seen of current cheap laptops, they're mostly all P4's and P4 Celerons that get 2 or 3 hours of battery life (1 battery), run hot, and are somewhat bulky compared to a PowerBook. Right, the only laptops that really compare to the Apple PowerBooks are the Intel Centrino systems (and I think Athlon XP-M systems too). Last I checked, most Centrino laptops were priced above the PowerBooks, and they don't run MacOSX ;)