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Encyclopedia > Apple Public Source License

The Apple Public Source License is the open source license under which Apple Computer's Darwin Project was released. An open source license was voluntarily adopted to further involve the community from which much of Darwin originated. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Hexley, the mascot of Darwin Darwin is the core operating system of Apple Computers Mac OS X, and runs on an open source kernel called XNU. Apple first released Darwin to the open source community in 2000. ...


The first version of the Apple Public Source License was approved by the Open Source Initiative. The most recent version conforms to the Free Software Foundation guidelines, and is pending approval by OSI. The Apple Public Source License is not compatible with the General Public License The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ... Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... GPL redirects here. ...


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Apple Public Source License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (126 words)
The Apple Public Source License is the open source/free software license under which Apple Computer's Darwin operating system was released.
An open source license was voluntarily adopted to further involve the community from which much of Darwin originated.
The first version of the Apple Public Source License was approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
Apple Updates Public Source License (418 words)
Darwin, the Open Source release of the Mac® OS X Server operating system foundation, is proving popular with developers: since it's release a month ago there have been over 160,000 downloads of Darwin source code components and over 20,000 developers have registered on the Darwin web site (www.apple.com/publicsource).
Apple is now recommitted to its original mission to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.
Apple, the Apple logo, AppleScript, Mac OS and Macintosh are registered trademarks and iMac is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
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