Policies

Apertis hosts its own package subset on the Apertis GitLab instance. On successful completion of the CI pipeline these are uploaded to Collabora’s Open Build Service (OBS) instance where the packages are formally built and hosted for Apertis. Packages Guidelines The package set is distributed in several groups: target, development, sdk, hmi, helper-libs. Those groups are merged in a single repository, and split in what distribution names repository components (target, development, sdk, hmi, helper-libs). [Read More]

Apertis code, including build scripts, helpers and recipes, is primarily licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Images (such as icons) and documentation in Apertis are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Apertis also makes use of other projects which may have other licenses, such as the GPL and LGPL. For example, this includes projects such as the Linux kernel, WebKit and GLib. [Read More]

Apertis and its direct downstreams are intended as baseline distributions for further product development, as such it’s important to have a clear definition of what downstreams further down the chain can expect in terms of releases and support cycles in order to understand how to best use them in their product development cycles. The release cycles of Apertis and its direct downstreams are split up in two big phases: a development phase, containing various development releases followed by a product phase which contains various stable point releases. [Read More]

License exceptions License exceptions for Apertis are listed below. Each exception must provide the following informations: project The project name component The repository components apertis:*:target date The date at which the exception was added to this document validator The name of the person who validated the exception rule The rules that are ignored by this exception reason A description of why the exception is granted and makes sense gcc-8 project gcc-8 component apertis:*:target date April 17, 2019 validator fredo rule No GPL v3 reason The GCC source package is granted exception to be present in target repository component because it produces binary packages covered by different licensing terms: [Read More]

The license is an important element in open source projects as the license define acceptable use cases, user rights, and contribution guidelines. There are different ways to identify the license from the project source code such as SPDX headers, the LICENSE file, and the COPYING file. However an open source project may contain files from other projects and may use different licenses for different files. Apertis goals Apertis aims to accomplish the following goals: [Read More]

The Apertis Logo The Apertis logo consists of 2 elements: The Symbol The Wordmark In most situations the Symbol and the Workmark should remain connected and used as a whole. In isolated cases, where suitable, it is permitted that the Symbol can be separated from the Workmark, likewise the Wordmark can be removed from the Symbol. When using the Symbol and Wordmark togther, please ensure that you maintain the spacing /layout between them as below. [Read More]

This text documents what you can expect from the Apertis community online and at events and, in turn, what we expect from you. We believe that people generally mean well. Excepting strong evidence to the contrary, we ask that you do the same. We favour communication over confrontation. Most issues that arise during day-to-day contribution to any software project and at events can be resolved by communication between the affected parties. [Read More]

Who are we? “apertis.org” is managed and maintained by Collabora Limited. We are an IT global consultancy company, specialized in open source software. Our main office is in The Platinum Building, St John’s Innovation Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Our registered company number is 05513718 and our ICO registration number is ZA229843. If you have any queries in connection with how we use your data, you can contact us by emailing data@collabora. [Read More]

The text of the Apertis website is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Apertis editors and contributors and is formally licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) unless explicitly stated otherwise. The licenses that the Apertis website uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. Apertis website content can be copied, modified, and redistributed if and only if the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the Apertis website article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement; see below for more details). [Read More]