Academic Free License v1.1

Also known as AFL 1.1, AFL-1.1, Academic Free License v1.1.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AFL-1.1

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Charge license fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Patent grant from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Promote from the text
Sublicense from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Patent license ends if you sue: Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

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.

Additional clauses

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.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/AFL-1.1.html
Legal code: http://opensource.linux-mirror.org/licenses/afl-1.1.txt
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Lawrence Rosen
Attribution name: Lawrence E. Rosen
SPDX identifier: AFL-1.1 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: AFL-1.1

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

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JSON sidecar

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AFL-1.1",
  "license-title": "Academic Free License v1.1",
  "spdx-id": "AFL-1.1",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AFL-1.1> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AFL-1.1"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AFL-1.1" rel="license">Academic Free License v1.1</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

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Markdown

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HTML

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-15
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 9 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The first Academic Free License: a permissive grant of use, copying, modification, distribution and sale together with an express patent licence, conditioned only on the reproduction of the copyright notices. The record follows AFL-3.0, the sibling already in the library, and differs from it where version 1.1 is different: the licence is not sublicenseable and it has no clause 1(c) allowing a distributor to pick another licence. Nothing here is legal advice.

9 findings

info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Software alone, the type 32 of the library's software records carry, among them MIT, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-3.0-only and the sibling OSL-3.0. These texts license an "original work of authorship", which would also fit dalicc:CreativeWork, the type the AFL-3.0 record carries beside Software and Dataset; the review group keeps the narrower reading its review plan prescribes, so that all nine records of the family answer alike and the association can widen them in one pass.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant reads: "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". The record therefore carries the library's permissive base set plus dalicc:chargeLicenseFee for the right to sell copies, and dalicc:patentGrant for the patent licence in paragraph (2).
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Three prohibitions. dalicc:sublicense, because the grant is expressly "non-sublicenseable"; dalicc:promote, from the Exclusions from License Grant clause, which bars the use of the names and marks of the Licensor and the contributors to endorse or promote products; and dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, from the Mutual Termination for Patent Action clause.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

The only condition on the licensee is the Right of Attribution: "Redistributions of the Original Work must reproduce all copyright notices in the Original Work as furnished by the Licensor". cc:Attribution and cc:Notice therefore hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive. cc:SourceCode hangs on odrl:distribute and follows the AFL-3.0 record; the License to Source Code clause is drafted as an undertaking of the Licensor rather than of the licensee, which the review of the family should settle once for all nine records.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The warranty and the limitation of liability are quoted verbatim into their own fields. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the License to Source Code clause, the Mutual Termination for Patent Action clause and the notice that the licence text itself may not be modified.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

Version 1.1 names no forum and no governing law, so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual, which the grant states in as many words.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The automatic termination of the licence on a patent action is modelled with dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, but the mechanism, that the whole licence ends, has no property. Proposed term dalicc:terminatesOnBreach over the existing dalicc:terminationOnBreach concept; the clause is quoted instead.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.
info Rubric 10 family none

AFL-1.1 and AFL-1.2 share one model. Against AFL-3.0 this record lacks the dalicc:ChangeLicense permission, which AFL-3.0 carries from its clause 1(c), and adds the dalicc:sublicense prohibition, because 1.1 is not sublicenseable.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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5 changes
- changed permission dalicc:chargeLicenseFee
  
  was permission dalicc:chargeLicenseFee
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "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"
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "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."
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "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."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "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."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Academic Free and Open Software).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.