Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.

[Efraim Flashner]

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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