The AROS Public License (APL) is

software license A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software. Under United States copyright law, all software is copyright protected, in both source ...

which is primarily used for distribution of the

AROS Research Operating System AROS Research Operating System (AROS, pronounced "AR-OS") is a free and open-source software, free and open-source multi media centric implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 application programming interface (API). Designed to be portable and flexib ...

software project. Version 1.1 is based on the text of

Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird The MPL license is developed and maintained by Mozilla, which seeks to balance the concerns ...

1.1 with some definitions added and Netscape-specific texts changes. It has not been officially approved as a free or open source license by the FSF,

OSI OSI may refer to: Places * Osijek Airport (IATA code: OSI), an airport in Croatia * Ősi, a village in Veszprém county, Hungary * Oši, an archaeological site in Semigallia, Latvia * Osi, a village in Ido-Osi, Ekiti State, Nigeria * Osi, Ekiti ...

, or

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

. The license the APL is based on, MPL v1.1, is incompatible with the GPL, unless the developer offers the choice of licensing the program under the GPL or any other GPL-compatible license.https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#MPL

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