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Beerware

Summary

Beerware is a free software license[1]. Beerware draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (free_software_license category, ranking #3 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Beerware authored Poul-Henning Kamp[3].
  • Beerware's instance of is recorded as free software license[4].
  • Beerware's instance of is recorded as public-domain-equivalent license[5].
  • Beerware's logo image is recorded as BeerWare Logo.svg[6].
  • Beerware's Commons category is recorded as Beerware[7].
  • Beerware's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03r744[8].
  • Beerware's approved by is recorded as Copyfree Initiative[9].
  • Beerware's work available at URL is recorded as https://spdx.org/licenses/Beerware.html[10].
  • Beerware's topic has template is recorded as Template:Beerware[11].
  • Beerware's SPDX license ID is recorded as Beerware[12].
  • Beerware's Framalibre ID is recorded as licence-beerware[13].

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Works and Contributions

Beerware authored Poul-Henning Kamp[3].

Why It Matters

Beerware draws 59 Wikipedia views per month (free_software_license category, ranking #3 of 14).[2] Beerware has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Beerware is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

NTPsec Poul-Henning Kamp SWI-Prolog

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . copyfree.org. copyfree.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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