Adaptive Public License
Encyclopedia
The Adaptive Public License (APL) is an Open Source
license from the University of Victoria
. It is a weak copyleft
, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative
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The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the license conditions for that project by choosing their specific options from the license template. Choices include:
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
license from the University of Victoria
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
. It is a weak copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...
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The Initial Contributor for a project sets up the license conditions for that project by choosing their specific options from the license template. Choices include:
- whether or not to grant patentPatentA patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
rights - governing jurisdiction
- limited attribution and branding clauses
- the scope of how widely the source can be distributed before being obliged to contribute code changes
- the extent to which changes need to be documented
Selected Programs Licensed Under the APL
- Cheat EngineCheat EngineCheat Engine, commonly abbreviated as CE, is an open source memory scanner/hex editor/debugger created by Eric Heijnen for the Windows operating system. Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games, and is sometimes modified and recompiled to evade detection. This program resembles ,...
- Mamook - Web-based Recruitment Software
- MusicDNSMusicDNSMusicDNS is an acoustic fingerprinting service and a software development kit provided by MusicIP. MusicDNS is used by MusicIP Mixer, MusicBrainz Picard, and Jaikoz. According to MusicIP, the fingerprint database contains over 22 million fingerprints as of August, 2006. MusicDNS has nothing to do...
- SwisTrackSwistrackSwisTrack is a tool for tracking robots, humans, animals and objects using a camera or a recorded video as input source. It uses Intel's OpenCV library for fast image processing and contains interfaces for USB, FireWire and GigE cameras, as well as AVI files....