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'''Category:Academic Free License''' — the '''Academic Free License''' ('''AFL''') is a {{tag|license}} which can be applied to any original work of authorship where the owner has also placed a {{tag|copyright}} on their original work. Although officially [https://OpenSource.org/licenses/alphabetical approved] by the [https://OpenSource.org Open Source Initiative] (OSI), this license ''may'' not be suitable for [[:Category:Open source|open source]] work. The Academic Free License, created by and Copyright of {{Wp|Lawrence Rosen (attorney)|Lawrence Rosen}} of [https://RosenLaw.com Rosen Law],<ref>Lawrence Rosen (2007); [https://RosenLaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm OSL 3.0: A better license for Open Source Software] ''RosenLaw.com''; retrieved 27 December 2017.</ref> can be considered similar to the [[:Category:BSD | '''Category:Academic Free License''' — the '''Academic Free License''' ('''AFL''') is a {{tag|license}} which can be applied to any original work of authorship where the [[owner]] has also placed a {{tag|copyright}} on their original work. Although officially [https://OpenSource.org/licenses/alphabetical approved] by the [https://OpenSource.org Open Source Initiative] (OSI), this license ''may'' not be suitable for [[:Category:Open source|open source]] work. The Academic Free License, created by and Copyright of {{Wp|Lawrence Rosen (attorney)|Lawrence Rosen}} of [https://RosenLaw.com Rosen Law],<ref>Lawrence Rosen (2007); [https://RosenLaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.htm OSL 3.0: A better license for Open Source Software] ''RosenLaw.com''; retrieved 27 December 2017.</ref> can be considered similar to the [[:Category:BSD license|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 [https://OpenSource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0 this web page] (from OpenSource.org) and / or [https://RosenLaw.com/pdf-files/OSL3.0-comparison.pdf this PDF document] from (RosenLaw.com). | ||
Fundamentally, the Academic Free License (AFL):<ref>Kevin Wang; [https://tldrLegal.com/license/academic-free-license-3.0-(afl) Academic Free License 3.0 (AFL)] ''tl;drLegal''; retrieved 27 December 2017.</ref>{{Cquote|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 [[:Category:Open Software License|Open Software License]], this license is nearly identical but, unlike the Open Software License, not [[:Category:Copyleft|copyleft]] as it doesn't force derivative works to use the same license.}} | Fundamentally, the Academic Free License (AFL):<ref>Kevin Wang; [https://tldrLegal.com/license/academic-free-license-3.0-(afl) Academic Free License 3.0 (AFL)] ''tl;drLegal''; retrieved 27 December 2017.</ref>{{Cquote|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 [[:Category:Open Software License|Open Software License]], this license is nearly identical but, unlike the Open Software License, not [[:Category:Copyleft|copyleft]] as it doesn't force derivative works to use the same license.}} | ||
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* | *{{Related|Open Software License}} (OSL) — a similar and companion [[:Category:Copyleft|copyleft]] license also of Lawrence Rosen. | ||
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