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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law

by Lawrence Rosen
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 12m
English
Pearson
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13. Miscellaneous

Both OSL and AFL

This License represents the complete agreement concerning the subject matter hereof. If any provision of this License is held to be unenforceable, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.

These provisions are common in professionally written licenses.

The first sentence avoids the confusion that can result when people say different things about a license than what the license itself says. I described one such situation in Chapter 6, where Linus Torvalds has written publicly that his interpretation of the GPL is different than that of the license's authors at the Free Software Foundation. The OSL/AFL handles such situations by saying that the words of the license ...

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