Academic Free License

[David Johnson]

On Tuesday 25 June 2002 01:50 pm, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:

> The Academic Free License (AFL) is similar to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and
> Apache licenses in many respects but it is intended to solve a few
> problems with those licenses.

Indeed, it seems to be a straight translation of the BSD license into a more 
rigorous legalese. 

I see no problems with it meeting any of the various definitions of free or 
open software. I am worried about it's redundancy. Are there real practical 
problems with the BSD/MIT/etc licenses? Other than the patent clause (2) I 
see no reason why anyone would want to adopt this instead of other widely 
used licenses.

My two cents...

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