Monday, May 10, 2010

The best license

The beer-ware license (Revision 42):
As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
Poul-Henning Kamp

Honestly, this guy deserve a lot of beer... and for they who ask who is, from Wikipedia, the answer:
"Poul-Henning Kamp (sometimes known as PHK) is a Danish FreeBSD developer, responsible for implementation of the widely used MD5 password hash algorithm, a vast quantity of systems code, including the FreeBSD GEOM storage layer, GBDE cryptographic storage transform, part of the UFS2 file system implementation, FreeBSD Jails, malloc library, clock/time code, and the Beerware license.
His dispute with electronics manufacturer D-Link over a matter of NTP vandalism was resolved on 27 April 2006.[1][2]
He also is the lead architect and developer for the Varnish cache project.
Poul-Henning is responsible for the widespread use of the term bikeshed colour to describe contentious but otherwise meaningless technical debates over trivialities in open source projects. This term is in use in, among others, the FreeBSD Project, the Perl Project, and the Subversion Project."

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