Fair License
| Author | James William Pye |
|---|---|
| Published | 2004 |
| SPDX identifier | Fair |
| OSI approved | Yes |
| GPL compatible | Yes |
| Copyleft | No |
| Linking from code with a different license | Yes |
| Website | https://opensource.org/license/fair/ |
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The Fair License is a short, simple and permissive free software licence. Its text is composed of only one sentence and a disclaimer, thus being the shortest license ever approved by the Open Source Initiative. It is also possible to use the Fair License for images, books, music or more generally all kinds of media. The text of the license is as follows:
<Copyright Information> Usage of the works is permitted provided that this instrument is retained with the works, so that any entity that uses the works is notified of this instrument. DISCLAIMER: THE WORKS ARE WITHOUT WARRANTY.
More popular alternatives to the Fair License are the MIT and simplified BSD licenses, which are also composed of few sentences but their disclaimers are longer.