







The following licenses fit the Fair Source Definition.
Software Sharing for Modern Companies | Fair.io
Fair Source is an alternative to closed source, allowing you to safely share access to your core products. Fair Source Software (FSS) can be used with minimal restrictions, and becomes Open Source after a period of time.

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch
New alternative category to 'closed source' could help companies monetize software in the open -- without going all-in on open source.

Licenses – Open Source Initiative
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Home - FAIR
FAIR.pm is a groundbreaking new way of distributing software from a decentralized group of repositories. Discover, trust, install: FAIR 1.4.0 is here Decentralised WordPress packages are here. The working group for Federated And Independent Repositories is excited to announce its 1.4.0 Release. FAIR’s primary goal is to improve security in the software supply chain while […]

CopyFair License - P2P Foundation
= a type of licensing or agreement that aims to re-introduce the principle and practice of reciprocity in markets that use mutualized knowledge (commons), by regulating contributions to these commons for those that commercialize it
Sorting out the Ethical Licensing Mess
Software developers who give the world, for free, usage rights to the code they write often use open source licenses to make this gift legally explicit. These free usage rights (and then some) are …


FAIRdata.ai — FAIR Data Assessment
Assess your research data's FAIRness. Automated pipeline using F-UJI + Claude AI. Free to use.

RSL: Really Simple Licensing
The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet

What is RSL? | RSL: Really Simple Licensing
The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet
Licensing terms for data in the Atmosphere
I’d like to raise a fun and interesting topic, and that’s intellectual property and content licensing. The data that flies around the Atmosphere is all visible and public. We’re at a stage within the Atmosphere where services are beginning to grow, and we’re beginning to see lexicons and data that express creative works that extend in length beyond microblogging. I think that the Standard.site lexicons are a great example. But these creations lead to further questions. Who has permission to...

Perspective Chapter: Fit for Purpose? Creative Commons Licensing for Research Data in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Licensing is an important component of the re-usability of research data, itself part of the FAIR principles: without clear, machine-readable licensing, datasets risk becoming technically...

Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative