From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:02:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mbry6r0.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160327100811.51d01807@debian-netbook>
Efraim Flashner writes:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:50:53 -0700
> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> 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."))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-27 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-26 23:18 [PATCH 0/3] Adding libbsd and signify Leo Famulari
2016-03-26 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license Leo Famulari
2016-03-27 1:50 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-27 7:08 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-03-27 21:02 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-03-27 21:31 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-28 16:00 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-28 16:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-28 20:07 ` Alex Vong
2016-03-30 17:01 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-04-01 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-26 23:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add libbsd Leo Famulari
2016-04-07 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-12 0:10 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-26 23:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add signify Leo Famulari
2016-04-07 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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