Common Public Attribution License

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The Common Public Attribution License ("CPAL") is a free software license approved by the Open Source Initiative in 2007.[1] Its purpose is to be a general license for software distributed over a network. It is based on the Mozilla Public License, but it adds a controversial attribution term paraphrased below:

[…] the Original Developer may include […] a requirement that each time an Executable and Source Code or a Larger Work is launched or initially run […] a prominent display of the Original Developer's Attribution Information […] must occur on the graphic user interface employed by the end user to access such Covered Code […]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jonathan Corbet (July 31, 2007). "Open-source badgeware". Linux Weekly News. http://lwn.net/Articles/243841/. 

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