Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Efraim Flashner writes:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:50:53 -0700
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> 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."))