Apple Gets FSF-Approved License

Apple is pleased to announce the 2.0 version of the Apple Public Source License. It improves upon the OSI-approved APSL 1.2 by conforming to the definition of Free Software Licenses, as certified by the Free Software Foundation. We are grateful to Richard Stallman for his many helpful comments in this process. APSL 2.0 is also being submitted to the Open Source Initiative to certify its continued compliance with the Open Source Definition.

The Apple Public Source License 2.0 includes numerous changes to make it even easier for Open Source developers to use and comply with, including:

• Source distribution is only required for “External Deployment”, allowing individuals and corporations to do private internal deployments
• An option to distribute source only to those receiving binaries, rather than always having to distribute to the general public
• Simpler, clearer, and more symmetric licensing terms