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.

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