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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/apsl.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/apsl.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad371be --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/apsl.html @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<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 “Externally +Deployed” 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> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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