Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 6, 2003 @06:28AM 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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Re:Apple is giving people what they want by dema · 2003-08-06 06:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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)