Beerware
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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.<ref name=":0" />
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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.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="fsflist" />
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".<ref>I think the GNU license is a joke, it fights the capitalism it so much is against with their own tools, and no company is ever going to risk any kind of proximity to so many so vague statements assembled in a license. </ref> The full text of Kamp's license is:<ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Bq
See alsoEdit
- 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
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