Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved

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."

Comments

Re:Apple is giving people what they want

[dema]

Be careful before buying an apple laptop. Yestday my mom's Titanium Powerbook G4 did a total nose dive (not literally). After a few hours of trying all kinds of things par the Knowledge Base and Apple Support I determined the power manger chip is completely dead (meaning it won't take power from an outlet and can't recharge the barrey. So I cruised the internet for a few hours on how to get this matter handled and I ran across a good number of horror stories about people having the same problem with older laptops and Apple denying it is an issue. It appears the only option we have now is sending it in to Apple and they say they would most likely need it for a few months.

(Sorry this is off-topic)

memories

[514x0r]

the first machine i bought with my own money was a 486dx2/66 with a cyrix chip.....ah the memories....brthe last i saw it it was still working as a proxy server at my last job.

Re:GNU's not BSD either

[Llywelyn]

>No, if you release under the BSD license, it does not have
>to be free over its ntire lifetime.
Yes, it is.

There is nothing you can do to a tool I release under the BSD license to make it non-free.

You can include it in your proprietary software product, but that isn't making it non-free--people can still download the original source and use it as they see fit, they just can't download your changes for the same.

Thus, the BSD license says that "this source code must remain free, forever" the GPL says that "this source code and any source code that uses it must remain free, forever".

>With BSD, anybody can take the software and sell it as
>proprietary software, with the subsequent loss to the
>user, who is the one the FSF wants to protect.

Protect from what? The evil corporate software people who come in the middle of the night to eat your children? Those who choose not to release their source code?