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key
afl-1.1
short_name
AFL 1.1
name
Academic Free License 1.1
category
Permissive
owner
Lawrence Rosen
homepage_url
https://spdx.org/licenses/AFL-1.1
notes
Per SPDX.org, this license has been superseded by later versions.
spdx_license_key
AFL-1.1
text_urls
osi_url
http://web.archive.org/web/20060924134536/http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-1.1.txt
other_urls
ignorable_copyrights
  • Copyright (c) 2002 Lawrence E. Rosen
ignorable_holders
  • Lawrence E. Rosen
license_text
Academic Free License
Version 1.1

The Academic Free License applies to any original work of authorship
(the "Original Work") whose owner (the "Licensor") has placed the
following notice immediately following the copyright notice for the
Original Work: "Licensed under the Academic Free License version 1.1."

Grant of License. Licensor hereby grants to any person obtaining a
copy of the Original Work ("You") a world-wide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license (1) to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish, perform, distribute and/or sell copies of the
Original Work and derivative works thereof, and (2) under patent
claims owned or controlled by the Licensor that are embodied in the
Original Work as furnished by the Licensor, to make, use, sell and
offer for sale the Original Work and derivative works thereof, subject
to the following conditions.

Right of Attribution. Redistributions of the Original Work must
reproduce all copyright notices in the Original Work as furnished by
the Licensor, both in the Original Work itself and in any
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution of
the Original Work in executable form.

Exclusions from License Grant. Neither the names of Licensor, nor the
names of any contributors to the Original Work, nor any of their
trademarks or service marks, may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this Original Work without express prior written
permission of the Licensor.

WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMERS. LICENSOR WARRANTS THAT THE COPYRIGHT IN AND
TO THE ORIGINAL WORK IS OWNED BY THE LICENSOR OR THAT THE ORIGINAL
WORK IS DISTRIBUTED BY LICENSOR UNDER A VALID CURRENT LICENSE FROM THE
COPYRIGHT OWNER. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE IMMEDIATELY
PRECEEDING SENTENCE, THE ORIGINAL WORK IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS LICENSE
ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT AND
WARRANTIES THAT THE ORIGINAL WORK IS MERCHANTABLE OR FIT FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY OF THE ORIGINAL
WORK IS WITH YOU. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL
PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO LICENSE TO ORIGINAL WORK IS GRANTED HEREUNDER
EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL
THEORY, WHETHER TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE,
SHALL THE LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER ARISING
AS A RESULT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE ORIGINAL WORK INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE,
COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER COMMERCIAL
DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF SUCH PERSON SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT
APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY RESULTING FROM SUCH
PARTY'S NEGLIGENCE TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH
LIMITATION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS EXCLUSION
AND LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

License to Source Code. The term "Source Code" means the preferred
form of the Original Work for making modifications to it and all
available documentation describing how to access and modify the
Original Work. Licensor hereby agrees to provide a machine-readable
copy of the Source Code of the Original Work along with each copy of
the Original Work that Licensor distributes. Licensor reserves the
right to satisfy this obligation by placing a machine-readable copy of
the Source Code in an information repository reasonably calculated to
permit inexpensive and convenient access by You for as long as
Licensor continues to distribute the Original Work, and by publishing
the address of that information repository in a notice immediately
following the copyright notice that applies to the Original Work.

Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate
automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted
to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging
that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any
license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause
infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.

This license is Copyright (C) 2002 Lawrence E. Rosen. All rights
reserved. Permission is hereby granted to copy and distribute this
license without modification. This license may not be modified without
the express written permission of its copyright owner.

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END OF LICENSE.