Beware of Beerware?
Jason L Tibbitts III
tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Aug 11 14:56:53 UTC 2008
>>>>> "SW" == Simon Wesp <simon at w3sp.de> writes:
SW> Hi, I want to start a review request and the application i packed
SW> is published under Beerware [1] which is not listed in Licensing
SW> [2].
Text of the license:
* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
* <phk at FreeBSD.ORG> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning Kamp
This is basically a joke license like the WTFPL; since the beer
purchase requirement is optional, it seems to me that this is
basically equivalent to the "Copyright only" license at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/CopyrightOnly. The only
actual requirement is that the notice not be removed, which obviously
does not render the software non-free in pretty much any sense I can
think of.
- J<
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