[License-discuss] Status of earlier AFL licenses?

[VM (Vicky) Brasseur]

Whoa there, friend. Stefano's appointment as ED was only just announced 
today. Let's give him at least a week more to settle in before we revive 
that particular conversation. ;-)

--V

McCoy Smith wrote on 8/9/21 11:58:
> 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 I think the earlier versions, however, should be put in the "superseded"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 are no longer valid.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 I think what probably happened is the older versions got superseded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 superseded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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