From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license. Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:02:11 -0700 Message-ID: <874mbry6r0.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <83dc458a779ea4c3d3c9a08d5d5a4a8420e98b31.1459033650.git.leo@famulari.name> <871t6w3czm.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160327100811.51d01807@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akHp9-0005IU-36 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:02:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akHp8-0005le-2h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:02:15 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:58160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akHp7-0005lX-Un for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:02:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160327100811.51d01807@debian-netbook> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:50:53 -0700 > Christopher Allan Webber 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."))