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Academic Free License
Author Lawrence E. Rosen
Version 1.2, 2.1, 3.0
Copyright Lawrence E. Rosen
Published 2002
DFSG compatible ?
Free software Yes
OSI approved Yes
GPL compatible See Text
Copyleft No
Linking from code with a different license Yes

The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apache licenses — licenses allowing the software to be made proprietary — but was written to correct perceived problems with those licenses:

  • The AFL makes clear what software is being licensed by including a statement following the software's copyright notice;
  • The AFL includes a complete copyright grant to the software;
  • The AFL contains a complete patent grant to the software;
  • The AFL makes clear that no trademark rights are granted to the licensor's trademarks;
  • The AFL warrants that the licensor either owns the copyright or is distributing the software under a license;
  • The AFL is itself copyrighted, with the right granted to copy and distribute without modification.

AFL versions 1.2 and 2.1 are not compatible with the GNU GPL.[1] The Free Software Foundation has not commented on the newer version 3.0, which Eric S. Raymond contends is GPL compatible. In late 2002, an OSI working draft considered it a "best practice" license.[2] In mid 2006, however, the OSI's License Proliferation Committee found it "redundant with more popular licenses"[3], specifically version 2 of the Apache Software License.

References

  1. ^ Richard, Stallman. "Various Licenses and Comments about Them". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
  2. ^ Eric, Raymond (2002-11-09). "Licensing HOWTO". Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
  3. ^ "Report of License Proliferation Committee and draft FAQ". Open Source Initiative (2006-07-31). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.

External links

See also

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Free_License"

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