license name arrogance Re: Academic Free License

2002-08-21 Thread Andy Tai
Common Free Software/Open Source license names are generally specific or unofficially named. BSD and MIT licenses are named (customarily) from the school or project names. GPL is commonly referred to as such but RMS/GNU always insisted the official name is GNU GPL. Now, Mr. Rosen prefers to n

Re: Academic Free License

2002-08-21 Thread John Cowan
Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: > I request the OSI board to approve that revised version. Which it should promptly do. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan[EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express

Academic Free License

2002-08-21 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
I have modified the Academic Free License to remove the word "sublicense" from the copyright grant. The new version, numbered as version 1.1, is now posted to www.rosenlaw.com/afl.html. It is best for open source licenses not to be sublicenseable I request the OSI board to approve that revised