[Fedora-legal-list] AFPL license

[Richard Fontana]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:34:08PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> The libmusicbrainz5 package in Fedora uses sources for the
> musicbrainz.org project, and contains the xmlParser.cpp and xmlParser.h
> files which say:
> 
>  * Copyright (c) 2002, Business-Insight
>  * <a href="http://www.Business-Insight.com">Business-Insight</a>
>  * All rights reserved.
>  * See the file "AFPL-license.txt" about the licensing terms
> 
> Apart from the fact that the license file is missing (Christophe, can
> you go and tell upstream about this?), it seems that this refers to the
> Aladdin Free Public License:
> http://www.artifex.com/downloads/doc/Public.htm
> 
> This license isn't in the list at:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing
> And I don't know whether it is a free license, 

It is not a free software license.

- RF