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Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.
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Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license. |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 10:08:11 +0300 |
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:50:53 -0700
Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Now there's a license name bound to cause some confusion!
>
> It looks free... I think it would be okay to push. But maybe if only
> one or two packages use it it would be better to just use the
> non-copyleft license option?
>
I went and doublechecked the license, because I've heard in the past it's not
actually a copyleft license. According to wikipedia[0], it is not copyleft,
but is GPL compatable, and recognized by the FSF. The language of the license
does allow for not buying the author a beer.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware
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- [PATCH 0/3] Adding libbsd and signify, Leo Famulari, 2016/03/26
- [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Leo Famulari, 2016/03/26
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/03/26
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.,
Efraim Flashner <=
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/03/27
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Leo Famulari, 2016/03/27
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/03/28
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Leo Famulari, 2016/03/28
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Alex Vong, 2016/03/28
- Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license., Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/03/30
[PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add libbsd., Leo Famulari, 2016/03/26
[PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add signify., Leo Famulari, 2016/03/26