[License-discuss] License of open source licenses (the legal texts)?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 16:00:59 UTC 2021


On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 5:36 AM Dirk RIEHLE <dirk at riehle.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was trying to track down the license of the Apache 2.0 license (the legal
> text). The best I could find was this
>
> https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#mod-license
>
> On the OSI website there is also no information on the license of the legal
> texts.
>
> The intention is usually clear (free use and modification, but don't use our
> trademark), but something like CC-BY would be nicer.
>
> Thanks for any pointers!

FWIW, the apache.org website footer says "Copyright © 2021 The Apache
Software Foundation, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0."
I recall one longtime Apache Software Foundation figure saying that
content on the website was by default licensed under the Apache
License 2.0.

Richard




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