• Source: Beerware

Beerware is a tongue-in-cheek software license with permissive terms, which grants the right to do anything with the source code, assuming the license notice is preserved.




Description


Should the user of the code consider the software useful, they are encouraged to buy the author a beer "in return" if they ever meet. The Humanitarian-FOSS project at Trinity College recognized the "version 42" beerware license variant as an extremely permissive "copyright only" and GPL-compatible license. According to the Free Software Foundation the license would be classified as an "informal" free, non-copyleft and GPL-compatible license, however more detailed licenses are recommended.
Poul-Henning Kamp states preference of his Beerware license to other licenses, such as BSD and GPL, the latter of which he has described as a "joke". The full text of Kamp's license is:

/*
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
* 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
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/




Notes






See also



0BSD a public domain equivalent license used by Toybox and explicitly allowed for Android
Anti-copyright license
Careware
Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
Donationware
WTFPL




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• The Pirate Bay
• WTFPL
• Beerware
• Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
• WTFPL
• Opentracker
• Free software
• The Pirate Bay
• Poul-Henning Kamp
• Open-source license
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Public-domain-equivalent license