Fair License
Also known as Fair, Fair License.
- Commercial use
- allowed
- Share alike
- not required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
Permissions
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Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
Duties
- Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
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Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
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Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Duties
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Duties
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Duties
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Prohibitions
This license states no prohibitions.
License-wide duties
This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.
Clauses
Warranty disclaimer
DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.
Info
- Target asset types
- Software
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Perpetual
- Source
- https://spdx.org/licenses/Fair.html
- Legal code
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150926120323/http://fairlicense.org/
- This description is published under
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- SPDX identifier
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Fairon the SPDX license list - DALICC identifier
Fair
This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.
History
This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.
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Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur
The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.
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permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]was
permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.
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dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
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Version 1
Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Permissive: MIT, ISC and BSD-like).
Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.
Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.