[License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?

[McCoy Smith]

This would be a relatively elementary task if the mailing list were more easily searchable....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: VM (Vicky) Brasseur <osi-lists at vmbrasseur.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:45 AM
> To: mccoy at lexpan.law; license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> Cc: lrosen at rosenlaw.com
> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?
> 
> That's the process I'm familiar with, but I also haven't been paying a lot of
> attention to it lately so my memory may be failing me there.
> 
> Larry, could you please confirm whether those versions were OSI-approved
> when they _were_ valid?
> 
> My guess is that they were, but I don't want to assume and the SPDX team
> can't find definitive proof either way.
> 
> --V
> 
> McCoy Smith wrote on 8/9/21 10:17:
> > I think the earlier versions, however, should be put in the "superseded"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>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 8:08 AM
> >> To: mccoy at lexpan.law; license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> >> Cc: lrosen at rosenlaw.com
> >> 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 are no longer valid.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
> >> 707-478-8932
> >> 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org>
> >> On Behalf Of McCoy Smith
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 9:56 PM
> >> To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> >> 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 I think what probably happened is the older versions got superseded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 superseded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.
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org>
> >>> On Behalf Of VM (Vicky) Brasseur
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 9:13 PM
> >>> To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> --V
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