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."

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Freedom is not

[poptones]

life in a gated community. That ain't "free" for anyone - especially when a corporation holds the keys to the kingdom.

Re:typical /. troll form

[asv108]

You're whining because you're inately jealous of what Apple's been able to do with Free code they've used in their products or based their products off of.

Why would I be jealous of such a thing, considering I have an ibook?. I guess my mother's allowance must be pretty good to fund my home/office. I'm glad apple is making use of OSS, thats what it is there for, my original post was simply stating that Apple has not released anything that makes OSX interesting or desirable to non-mac users. I was never even hinting that Apple should or must release anything. I was simply stating that for all the Open Source talk that has been Spewed out by Apple's PR machine, they haven't delivered.

Not everyone can make money selling advertisements on their website, ergo they need to sell software or even hardware.

When the fuck did I ever mention advertisements or business models. Bottom line, Apple should pay up or shut up when it comes to their OSS PR.