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OSI Approves Two New Licenses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the student-driver dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Initiative approved two new licenses. One, the Academic Free License is a MIT/BSD-like license . The other one, the Open Software License is an apparently GPL-incompatible "viral" license with some obnoxious clauses. Both have an interesting "mutual termination for patent action" clause - basically, the license terminates if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause."

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  1. Not MIT/BSD-like by Glenn+R-P · · Score: 4, Informative

    The AFL, unlike MIT and BSD, does not require that the copyright
    be maintained in derivative works, but only in distributions of
    the Original Work.