APSL 1.2

Toon Knapen toon at si-lab.com
Thu Apr 5 14:27:38 UTC 2001


David Johnson wrote:
> I would definitely try to get Stallman's approval. So far, all Open Source
> licenses are also Free Software licenses(*). It would be sad if the APSL was
> the one to fall through the crack between the definitions.
<snip>
> 
> (*) The Artistic License might be an exception, but it does meet the
> definition in letter and spirit.

This also goes for the Sun Public License and the X11 apparantly. On the
FSF site they're indicated as being 'Free' but they're not
mentioned on opensource.org as OSI certified.

toon



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