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Fair-code

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Fair-code Principles

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Free and Sustainable

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160 | A sustainable software model for 2020 and beyond, we believe it is 161 | possible to respect the principles of freedom without being 162 | ideological. The fair-code software model promotes the use of 163 | profit as a means to continue development of software in a way 164 | that is compatible with their author’s short and long-term 165 | economic intentions. Although there are many successful projects 166 | which have traditionally worked as communities of unpaid 167 | professionals and experts, fair-code attempts to create a level 168 | playing ground for software authors of all backgrounds, including 169 | those that would like to make a living off of their work. 170 |
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Open but Pragmatic

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176 | We desire open specifications, discussion, and collaboration. All 177 | of these are good practice and help the software improve and the 178 | community grow. 179 |
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Community meets Prosperity

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185 | We want people to make money off of their software, but we 186 | recognize that the community benefits from a project's economic 187 | success. Within fair-code, creators have the exclusive right of 188 | commercializing their work, ensuring long-term profitability. 189 | Companies that wish to commercialize the software can contact the 190 | author and form a business relationship that benefits both 191 | parties! 192 |
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Meritocratic and Fair

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212 | What does fair-code mean to me as a user of fair-code software? 213 |

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215 | Fair-code projects can be used totally free: privately, and even 216 | within a company with 10,000 employees. If they, however, want to 217 | commercialize it and charge people money for a, for example, 218 | hosted version or do consulting, restrictions may apply. The 219 | restrictions can be different depending on the license and cost 220 | structure which the project uses. 221 |
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Why fair-code?

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227 | There is currently an economic disconnect between the people who 228 | create a project and put the most work in and the people who want 229 | to make money using it. Fair-code can ensure that projects are 230 | long term financially viable for their authors to continue and 231 | implement new features, or at least somewhat economically 232 | advantageous to their authors should their software succeed. It’s 233 | not that they should share all of the profit with the authors, but 234 | that fair-code attempts to ensure profitable business 235 | relationships which benefits both persons and/or companies. 236 |
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241 | What is “fair” about taking away the right to commercialize? 242 |

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244 | One way of making software more fair is by allowing developers to 245 | profit. Many companies today invest resources into taking an 246 | existing project and copying the ongoing work of the project 247 | creators; afterwards, creating and maintaining a hosted version 248 | using their code. In a fair circumstance, should they benefit from 249 | using the software, they could add certain features, fix bugs and 250 | support the community of users enjoying the product. In many cases 251 | they do, but fair-code ensures that this can happen by bringing 252 | businesses to the negotiation table when it comes to 253 | commercializing software. 254 |
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How does fair-code relate to open-source or free software?

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260 | We see fair-code as an alternative model which addresses key 261 | concerns which open-source and free software currently fail to 262 | address. We support the community at large, and it is strongly 263 | encouraged that fair-code projects donate and contribute to likely 264 | more financially strained free and open source siblings if 265 | possible. As fair-code is adopted by software projects, more 266 | people who appreciate open-source and free software will have the 267 | financial means to support the open-source projects that they rely 268 | on. 269 |
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Fair-code licenses

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279 | The following existing licenses meet all the fair-code requirements 280 | and projects using any of them can use the "fair-code" term. 281 |
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Companies/Projects

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The following companies/projects use compatible licenses:
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  • 349 | Airbyte (Elastic License 2.0)
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  • 355 | CockroachDB (Business Source License)
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  • 361 | Elastic (Elastic License 2.0)
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  • 370 | HashiCorp (Business Source License)
    371 | consul |  374 | nomad |  377 | packer |  380 | terraform |  383 | vagrant 386 |
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  • 388 | ingest (Server Side Public License)
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  • 394 | Keygen (Elastic License 2.0)
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  • 400 | MongoDB (Server Side Public License)
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  • 406 | n8n (Sustainable Use License)
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  • 410 | nango (Elastic License 2.0)
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  • 416 | OpenReplay (Elastic License 2.0)
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  • 425 | Sentry (Business Source License)
    426 | codecov |  429 | sentry 432 |
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Contact

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447 | If you have fair-code related questions or you want to be involved 448 | contact us.
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481 | Or best via Twitter 482 | (@faircode_io) 485 | and Github 486 | (faircode-io)! 489 |
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