Editing Beerware (section)

{{Short description|Permissive software license}}
{{For|glasses for beer|beer glassware}}
{{Infobox software license
| name = Beerware
| image = 
| caption = 
| author = [[Poul-Henning Kamp]]
| version = 42
| copyright = Yes
| date = 1998{{efn|According to the [[Wayback Machine]], the earliest revision of Poul-Henning Kamp's website containing the license is 1998. It is unknown whether this was indeed the first year of the license's publication.<ref>{{web archive|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20010302183711/people.freebsd.org/~phk/|title=Poul-Henning Kamp}}</ref>}}
| OSI approved = No
| Debian approved = Yes
| Free Software = Yes (see "informal license" section)<ref name="fsflist">{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#informal|title=Various Licenses and Comments about Them § Informal license|date=2016-01-05|website=www.gnu.org|publisher=[[Free Software Foundation]]|access-date=2016-01-05}}</ref>
| GPL compatible = Yes<ref name="fsflist" />
| copyleft = No<ref name="fsflist" />
| linking = Yes
}}

'''Beerware''' is a [[tongue-in-cheek]] software license with [[Permissive software license|permissive terms]], which grants the right to do anything with the [[source code]], assuming the license notice is preserved.<ref name=":0" />