The Apache License
Of the two most widely known and successful open source projects, Linux and Apache, only the latter is licensed under an academic license. That means—as is true for any software licensed under an academic license—that Apache software may be used by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose, including for inclusion in proprietary derivative works, without any obligation to disclose source code.
A copy of the current version of the Apache license is shown in the Appendices.
The first difference between the current Apache license and the BSD license is the following provision:
The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: “This product includes software developed by the ...
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