The MIT license is also gaining popularity with developers due to its short and clear license agreement, in contrast to the Apache license agreement. Heck, the appendix alone, which explains how to apply the license, is longer than the entire MIT license.
The BSD license is another highly permissible license that allows you to modify and redistribute software licensed under the BSD license as you like.
The key differences between the two licenses are:. You can use any Apache License 2. However, you must not name your product in a way that it looks like an endorsement from Apache. You must also not use any of the Apache marks like the multi-colored feather anywhere in your product or its documentation.
So these are ten of your top Apache License questions answered. Do you have any more? I would be happy to find the answers for you. The author of this blog is not a lawyer, and you should not interpret this as legal advice of any kind. Information is provided on an as-is basis. For a legal consultation, please contact your legal advisor.
Version 2. On Friday, the Apache Software Foundation endorsed version 2. The announcement came nearly five months after Covalent Technologies, a venture-backed company that sells Apache along with support and enhancements, decided in November that 2. Covalent employs several of the central Apache programmers. The new version runs faster; works better on Windows machines--and not just Unix and Linux systems; has integrated support for secure, encrypted communications; and supports more sophisticated publishing systems that create Web pages easily.
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