[License-discuss] Thoughts on AAL and OSS vs FOSS

[Josh Berkus]

On 3/31/20 1:13 PM, McCoy Smith wrote:
> FWIW, if you take out the badgeware part of AAL, you're left with nothing
> much that's different from, say, BSD (upon which AAL is based). There is
> paragraph 4, but I'm not sure that's adds anything to straight 3-clause BSD.
> So I'm not sure what would be the benefit of trying to come up with an
> improved AAL 2.0.   Better to just deprecate it and recommend BSD 3-clause
> as a preferred alternative.

At the request of Hillel Coren, I was going to offer up a "corrected"
version that replaced the badgeware clause with attribution language
more similar to the GPLv3.  Which would kinda make it the "acceptable
BSD 4-clause".

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Josh Berkus