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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
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+<title>FSF's Opinion on the Apple Public Source License (APSL)
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/apsl.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License (APSL) 2.0</h2>
+
+<p>The Apple Public Source License (APSL) version 2.0 qualifies as a free
+software license. Apple's lawyers worked with the FSF to produce a
+license that would qualify.
+The <a href="/philosophy/historical-apsl.html">problems previously
+described on this page</a> are still potential issues for other
+possible licenses, but they do not apply to version 2.0 of the APSL.
+We encourage everyone who uses any version of Apple Software under the
+APSL to use the terms of version 2.0 rather than that of any earlier
+license.</p>
+
+<p>In version 2.0 of the APSL, the definition of &ldquo;Externally
+Deployed&rdquo; has been narrowed in a way that is appropriate for the
+respect of users' freedoms. It has always been the position of FSF
+that the freedom of Free Software is primarily for the users of that
+software. Technologies, like web applications, are changing the way
+that users interact with software. The APSL 2.0, like
+the <a href="/licenses/agpl.html">GNU Affero GPL</a>, seeks
+to defend the freedom of those who use software in these novel ways,
+without unduly hindering the users' privacy nor freedom to use the
+software.</p>
+
+<p>The FSF now considers the APSL to be a free software license with two
+major practical problems, reminiscent of the NPL:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other files
+ which may be entirely proprietary.</li>
+
+<li>It is incompatible with the GPL.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>For this reason, we recommend you do not release new software using
+this license; but it is ok to use and improve software which other
+people release under this license.</p>
+
+<p>Aside from this, we must remember that only part of Mac OS X is being
+released under the APSL. Even though the fatal flaws of the APSL were
+fixed, and even if the practical problems were addressed, that does no
+good for the other parts of Mac OS X whose source code is not being
+released at all. We must not judge all of a company by just part of what
+it does.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/index.php">GNU-Darwin</a> is a combination
+of GNU and Darwin that is supposed to include only free software.</p>
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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+$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:38 $
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