Beerware is a term that originally referred to a software license similar to shareware but more layed-back. It provides the end user with the right to use a particular program (or obtain the source code) in exchange for providing some money to the author so that they could buy beer. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed without payment ahead of time as is common for proprietary software. ... http://www. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ...

It was invented by John Bristor in Pensacola, Florida on April 25, 1987. The first software distributed using the Beerware licensing model was uploaded to a number of BBS's (including dCenter of the Universe, The Boss, Executive Network, and PCExec) in 1987 and 1988. Since that time many variations on the beerware model have been created, some of which ask the user to consume a beer rather than requiring the sending of beer money (or beer itself in some forms). This article is about the inland city of Pensacola, Florida. ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Poul Henning Kamp created an open source license which he also called beerware.^[1] It states that the software or source code released under that license is free for the user to do anything he likes with and if he likes it, he is allowed to buy the author a beer. This license was created to be small in size and because he felt that the GPL was a joke. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ...