| Author | Lawrence E. Rosen |
|---|---|
| Latest version | 1.2, 2.1, 3.0 |
| Publisher | Lawrence E. Rosen |
| Published | 2002 |
| SPDX identifier | AFL-3.0 AFL-2.1 AFL-2.0 AFL-1.2 AFL-1.1 |
| Debian FSG compatible | ? |
| FSFapproved | Yes[1] |
| OSIapproved | Yes[2] |
| GPL compatible | No[1] |
| Copyleft | No[1] |
| Linking from code with a different licence | Yes |
| Website | rosenlaw |
TheAcademic Free License (AFL) is apermissive free software license written in 2002 byLawrence E. Rosen, a formergeneral counsel of theOpen Source Initiative (OSI).
The license grants similar rights to theBSD,MIT,UoI/NCSA andApache licenses – licenses allowing the software to be madeproprietary – but was written to correct perceived problems with those licenses. The AFL:
TheFree Software Foundation consider all AFL versions up to and including 3.0 asincompatible with theGNU GPL.[1] thoughEric S. Raymond (a co-founder of the OSI) contends that AFL 3.0 is GPL compatible.[3] In late 2002, an OSI working draft considered it a "best practice" license.[4] In mid-2006, however, the OSI'sLicense Proliferation Committee found it "redundant with more popular licenses",[2] specifically version 2 of theApache Software License.
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