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The license grants similar rights to the BSD , MIT , UoI/ NCSA and Apache licenses — licenses allowing the software to be taken Proprietary — but was written to clarify perceived problems with those licenses:

  • The AFL makes clear what software is being licensed by including a statement following the software's copyright notice;

  • The AFL includes a complete copyright grant to the software;

  • The AFL contains a complete patent grant to the software;

  • The AFL makes clear that no trademark rights are granted to the licensor's trademarks;

  • The AFL warrants that the licensor either owns the copyright or is distributing the software under a license;

  • The AFL is itself copyrighted, with the right granted to copy and distribute without modification.


The AFL is not a popular license. In January used a version of the license. According to the Free Software Foundation , the AFL version 1.2 is not compatible with the
GNU GPL ; however, the FSF has not commented on the newer version 2.1. Eric S. Raymond , among others, contends the AFL ''is'' compatible with the GPL.


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