Erlang Public License

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| author = Ericsson

| version = 1.1

| publisher = Ericsson

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| OSI approved = No

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The Erlang Public License is a computer software license, which was applied to some older Erlang programming language source code. It is a derivative work of the Mozilla Public License,{{Cite web|url=http://www.erlang.org/about.html|title = About - Erlang/OTP}} containing terms which differ from MPL, mainly in terms of jurisdiction. The license was constructed in accordance with the laws of Sweden.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Change of Apache License 2.0

On June 12, 2015, Ericsson announced at the Erlang User Conference 2015News from the OTP Team http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1434558750592554otpnewseuc2015.pdf that starting with the subsequent major release, Erlang/OTP 18.0,{{cite web |url=http://www.erlang.org/news |title=erlang.org/news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626145842/http://www.erlang.org/news |archive-date=2015-06-26 }} Erlang/OTP source code would be released under terms of the Apache License 2.0.

References

External links

[http://www.erlang.org/EPLICENSE Text] of the Erlang Public License
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120607165043/http://www.erlang.org/static/download/EPL1x0-explained.html Erlang Public License explained]

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