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Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.
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Christopher Allan Webber |
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license. |
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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:00:38 -0700 |
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Leo Famulari writes:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:02:11PM -0700, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Efraim Flashner writes:
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> It's not a copyleft license, right. That's why I suggested non-copyleft
>> :)
>>
>> For example, in unzip:
>>
>> (license (license:non-copyleft "file://LICENSE"
>> "See LICENSE in the distribution."))
>
> I'll do whatever the consensus says.
Okay, and again, I don't have strong opinions, just a suggestion.
> But what about the IBM license on the base64 component of signify? What
> should I do about that?
I don't know, could you point to what the code is and the license?
- [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, 2016/03/27
- 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 <=
- 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