Adaptive Public License

Short description: Open-source license

Adaptive Public LicenseAuthor| University of Victoria

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DFSG compatible| ?
FSF approved| ?
OSI approved| Yes
GPL compatible| ?
Copyleft| Yes
Linking from code with a different license| ?

The Adaptive Public License (APL) is an open-source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.

The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the license conditions for that project by choosing their specific options from the license template. Choices include:

* whether or not to grant patent rights
* governing jurisdiction
* limited attribution and branding clauses
* the scope of how widely the source can be distributed before being obliged to contribute code changes
* the extent to which changes need to be documented

## Selected programs licensed under the APL

* MusicDNS
* SwisTrack

## External links

* The Adaptive Public License

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