Beerware
Beerware is a licensing model for software. End User may use and modify a particular program free. However, users are encouraged to
- Outputting the author on the occasion of a beer or failing that,
- To drink a beer on the well-being of the author or, alternatively,
- To send the author an original coaster.
The author of the expression is true John Bristor. Around 1987 appeared the first programs that used the Beer -ware license model on.
The full text of the license, as it is used by Poul -Henning Kamp, is:
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* " THE BEER -WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
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* " THE BEER -WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
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- Pizza goods ( you donate to the author of a pizza )
- Chocolate goods (send the author a bar of chocolate )
- Music merchandise (send the author a music CD )
- Postcardware or Cardware (send the author a postcard)
- Emailware (send the author an e -mail)
- Careware ( you donate money to a good cause or to a charitable organization )
- Linkware ( calls for the use or favor a link to the author website)
- Nice goods ( prompts the user, phrases like " I swear I did something nice!" ( German: "I swear, I've done something good " ) to enter before the full operability is achieved. )
- Shonenware ( purchase of a license by purchasing a disk group Shonen Knife)
- Hugware ( calls up when in use or favor, to embrace a fellow human being )