Category:Academic Free License

Category:Academic Free License — the Academic Free License (AFL) is a  which can be applied to any original work of authorship where the owner has also placed a  on their original work. Although officially approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), this license may not be suitable for open source work. The Academic Free License, created by and Copyright of of Rosen Law, can be considered similar to the BSD license, in that there is "no reciprocal obligation to disclose source code". The full text of the license (AFL v3.0) can be found at this web page (from OpenSource.org) and / or this PDF document from (RosenLaw.com).

Fundamentally, the Academic Free License (AFL): Gives you a copyright and allows for a patent on the software so long as you include the original software, any of its copyrights or trademarks and a note saying that you modified it. Created by the same author as the Open Software License, this license is nearly identical but, unlike the Open Software License, not copyleft as it doesn't force derivative works to use the same license.


 * ''See also
 * (OSL) — a similar and companion copyleft license also of Lawrence Rosen.


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