Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-13 Thread Ángel González
On 13/06/15 06:36, Walter Landry wrote: Ángel Gonzálezkeis...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/15 23:22, Walter Landry wrote: I would strongly disagree here. Requiring documentation of any sort in addition to the source code is a big step. This is not a minor thing. I don't think requiring that

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 08:41:07 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Hello debian-legal regulars, I would need to ask your consensus opinion on the non-freeness of the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0. Hi Francesco, I think that

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 13/06/15 15:45, Francesco Poli wrote: As also noted by Walter Landry, there's a crucial difference w.r.t. Apache v2: the latter license requires to preserve attribution notices within NOTICE files; the AFL v3.0 requires instead to preserve *any* descriptive text identified as an Attribution

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:45:54 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote: On 13/06/15 15:45, Francesco Poli wrote: As also noted by Walter Landry, there's a crucial difference w.r.t. Apache v2: the latter license requires to preserve attribution notices within NOTICE files; the AFL v3.0 requires instead to

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-12 Thread Walter Landry
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Here are a few comments about the license. - point 3) is poorly worded, but assuming it is well-intented, it is Free. I would strongly disagree here. Requiring documentation of any sort in addition to the source code is a big step. This is not a

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-12 Thread Walter Landry
Ángel González keis...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/15 23:22, Walter Landry wrote: Charles Plessyple...@debian.org wrote: Here are a few comments about the license. - point 3) is poorly worded, but assuming it is well-intented, it is - Free. I would strongly disagree here. Requiring

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-12 Thread Ángel González
On 12/06/15 23:22, Walter Landry wrote: Charles Plessyple...@debian.org wrote: Here are a few comments about the license. - point 3) is poorly worded, but assuming it is well-intented, it is Free. I would strongly disagree here. Requiring documentation of any sort in addition to the

Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-10 Thread Francesco Poli
Hello debian-legal regulars, I would need to ask your consensus opinion on the non-freeness of the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0. My personal conclusion is that this license includes non-free restrictions and is also problematic with respect to Debian mirror infrastructure. My own analysis

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0

2015-06-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : Hello debian-legal regulars, I would need to ask your consensus opinion on the non-freeness of the Academic Free License (AFL) v3.0. Hi Francesco, I think that there is a broad consensus to accept the AFL as Free license, in