OSI Approval process

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Sep 19 05:33:57 UTC 2007


Lawrence Rosen wrote:

> I agree with you that the old BSD license is not clear enough. But I don't
> understand why people and companies keep submitting permissive licenses to
> OSI when there are several licenses, including the generic and tested AFL
> 3.0, 

AFL 3.0 does not seem to be compatible with either GPLv2 or GPLv3, due
to the Attorney's Fees and External Deployment provisions (possibly
others).  Is that your interpretation?

Matt Flaschen



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