[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg  added the comment:

The Adobe form itself also still lists the broken URL. Only Ewa or Betsy can 
fix this, I suppose. I'll write them an email.

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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg  added the comment:

Fixed https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ to point to 
https://spdx.org/licenses/AFL-2.1.html instead. The contrib-form page 
(https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/) already had this change, but 
the PDF you can download from there still lists the old link.

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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum  added the comment:

I also found what looks like a copy of AFL 2.1 on Python's own wiki:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq/AFL-2.1

(Of course, being a wiki, this has the disadvantage of being publicly editable. 
:-)

Yet another option presents itself: do away with the AFL 2.1 and just require 
Apache 2.0. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation for more on 
this.

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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum  added the comment:

A few options present themselves:

- We could switch to AFL 3.0 (https://opensource.org/licenses/AFL-3.0). This 
will require some review by our lawyer.

- We could link to another copy of AFL 2.1. Honestly the original one seems 
pretty odd.

- We could link to the archive.org copy of AFL 2.1.

But looking at archive.org I find this copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170827133353/https://www.samurajdata.se/opensource/mirror/licenses/afl-2.1.php

which has the following text, in red, at the top:

Larry Rosen has ceased to use or recommend any version of the Academic Free 
License below version 2.1

(Note that Larry Rosen is the AFL's author.)

So maybe the first option, get a legal opinion on switching to AFL 3.0, is our 
best recourse.

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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum  added the comment:

I've sent an email to our lawyer.

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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Guido van Rossum]

Change by Guido van Rossum :


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[issue41420] Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete

[Dmytro Litvinov]

New submission from Dmytro Litvinov :

Link to Acamedic Free License v. 
2.1(https://www.samurajdata.se/opensource/mirror/licenses/afl-2.1.php) at 
https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ is not found. Also, Guido mentioned that 
version 2.1 seems obsolete and we may need to review that with the lawyer 
(https://bugs.python.org/issue41328#msg374495).

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title: Academic Free License v. 2.1 link is not found and is obsolete
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