[License-discuss] REMOVE AAL from list of approved licenses

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/26/20 7:28 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> FWIW I disagree with the 2002 John Cowan wrt his assertion that the
> AAL is "essentially equivalent to the Old BSD license". The badgeware
> requirement in AAL applies whenever the program is launched and is a
> direct restriction on modification, which seems substantially more
> burdensome in practice than the BSD advertising requirement which only
> kicks in if you generate "advertising materials mentioning features or
> use of this software" and thus is likely to remain theoretical in most
> cases.

Yeah, we used to apparently have the policy that "if nobody strenuously
objects, the license passes".

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Josh Berkus