Licence Profile: Apache License, Version 2.0

Authors

  • Andrew Sinclair Canonical

Abstract

The Apache License, Version 2.0 is a widely used permissive open source software license which builds on the terms of other permissive open source licenses to produce a license with similar principles to those of licenses like the BSD License and MIT License, but with expanded terms.  This article is short overview of the license.

Author Biography

  • Andrew Sinclair, Canonical
    Andrew Sinclair is Legal Counsel at Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.
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Published

2011-01-25

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Articles

License

The most restrictive licence we will accept for submission is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) SPDX identifier CC-BY-4.0

How to Cite

Licence Profile: Apache License, Version 2.0. (2011). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 2(2), 107-114. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/42