Common Public Attribution License

The Common Public Attribution License ( CPAL ) is an open - source license, which was approved in 2007 by the Open Source Initiative as such. This license will provide a general purpose licensing distribution over the Internet. It is largely based on the Mozilla Public License, but adds some controversial passages added:

" [ ... ] The original developer june include [ ... ] a requirement did each time to 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 search Covered Code [ ... ] "

" [ ... ] The original developers can [ ... ] to add a condition that every time when a compiled program, source code or a larger work is started or first run, [ ... ] a clear indication of the attribution of the original developer [ ... ] on must GUI appear, the hand of the end user to access such a code [ ... ] "

Software

Since this license made ​​these modifications is not GPL - compatible, there are relatively few published under this license software products. On SourceForge are currently 109 projects under the CPAL published, the most famous of which is OpenProj. Facebook also released a portion of its source code under this License.