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Re: Fwd: figlet license change from Artistic to Clarified Artistic or Artistic 2.0?



Francesco Poli scripsit:

> a) releasing the work under a real copyright license grant (such as the
> Expat a.k.a. MIT license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt)

The AFL *is* a "real copyright license grant"; it already grants
everything the MIT license does and more.

> *and*
> 
> b) offering in parallel an optional `uni-lateral' contract in which the
> copyright holder promises things to anyone that is willing to accept the
> contract.
> 
> 
> In that case Debian would (probably) not accept the contract and simply
> distribute under the Expat license.

Nothing requires Debian to become a licensor just because they are distributing
AFLed code, though Debian would have that option.  (Is Debian a legal person?)

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