Adaptive Public License

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.

Adaptive Public License

Author	University of Victoria
SPDX identifier	APL-1.0
Debian FSG compatible	?
FSF approved	?
OSI approved	Yes
GPL compatible	?
Copyleft	Yes
Linking from code with a different licence	?
Website	opensource.org/licenses/APL-1.0

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 patent 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

• MusicDNS
• SwisTrack

External links

• The Adaptive Public License Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine