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Hi all,
tktable package is newly under review; can someone clarify to me how to identify its license? (license file attached)
In particular, i have a doubt about these "special notes":
************************************************************* SPECIAL NOTES:
This software is also falls under the bourbon_ware clause v2:
This software is free, but should you find this software useful in your daily work and would like to compensate the author, donations in the form of aged bourbon and scotch are welcome by the author. The user may feel exempt from this clause if they are below drinking age or think the author has already partaken of too many drinks. *************************************************************
Thanks.
- -- Antonio Trande
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On 10/18/2015 12:55 PM, Antonio Trande wrote:
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Hi all,
tktable package is newly under review; can someone clarify to me how to identify its license? (license file attached)
In particular, i have a doubt about these "special notes":
SPECIAL NOTES:
This software is also falls under the bourbon_ware clause v2:
This software is free, but should you find this software useful in your daily work and would like to compensate the author, donations in the form of aged bourbon and scotch are welcome by the author. The user may feel exempt from this clause if they are below drinking age or think the author has already partaken of too many drinks.
Thanks.
Antonio Trande
Probably i taken too much seriously this "type of joke", so much that this issue does not deserve any answer.
I suppose that tktable will be released with license TCL again.
"AT" == Antonio Trande anto.trande@gmail.com writes:
AT> Probably i taken too much seriously this "type of joke", so much AT> that this issue does not deserve any answer.
Well, if the license text says "you must buy me a beer of you see me" or whatever then that would render the software non-free regardless. If it says "feel free to", "please consider", "you are strongly encouraged" or the like, then the clause does not impact the free-ness of the software. (Yes, there was some software which required users to purchase some beverage, and that software was non-free until the license was altered.)
In this case, it's just a request and can be ignored. (not a lawyer, blah, blah.) I didn't read the rest of the license to see if there's anything else in there, though.
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