[License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?

[McCoy Smith]

I think the earlier versions, however, should be put in the "superseded"
category to capture any legacy uses? That's how others have been handled.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
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> Subject: RE: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?
> 
> McCoy is correct. Versions of AFL and OSL **prior to version 3.0** are no
> longer valid. Please remove those earlier versions. /Larry
> 
> Lawrence Rosen
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> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> On
> Behalf Of McCoy Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 9:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?
> 
> Since that's Larry Rosen's license, he'd probably know best. I talked to
him
> last week, should I ping him? I think he's on this list.
> I think what probably happened is the older versions got superseded in
favor
> of the newer versions, although typically that's shown in the superseded
list.
> 
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> > On Behalf Of VM (Vicky) Brasseur
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 9:13 PM
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> > Subject: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?
> >
> > Hi, folks!
> >
> > The SPDX folks are trying to sort out the status of the versions of
> > the Academic Free License prior to v3.0.
> >
> > Basically, the Wayback Machine shows that the earlier versions are
> > OSI- approved but they're not showing that way on the site anymore.
> > Searching the list archives didn't turn up any information that would
> clear
> > things up.
> >
> > Does anyone have any information about these?
> >
> > See this GitHub issue for details:
> > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1327
> >
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