FAM License

Thanks to the wonderful response we have received from the community about the FAM License, we are now including the "Plain English" version of the license on the FAM License splash page, hopefully soon to be augmented by the "Plain <insert your language here<" versions

Questions, comments, and considerations should be addressed to the FAM discussion list: fam@asafo.com. This is currently a low volume list, and you may subscribe to the list by visiting the list manager for fam@asafo.com.

Below is a plain English version of the license terms. If you want to volunteer to translate this into plain <insert language here>, please send an email to the list. Otherwise, please visit our current release candidate for the license.

In plain English

In Plain English, the FAM License guarantees certain freedoms for any person who possesses a FAM Licensed recorded performance. Any person may:
  1. Share the recorded performance, commercially or non-commercially.
  2. Alter (remix, encode, etc.) the performance, and share the resulting materials under the FAM License.
  3. Include the recorded performance in any FAM Licensed compilation.
Conspicuously absent from these freedoms- a person may NOT (without special permission from the copyright owner):
  1. Impose any further restrictions.
  2. Distribute the recorded performance under a different license (or without a license).
  3. Distribute the recorded performance without an accompanying copy of the FAM License and all the materials required by the license.
  4. Distribute the recorded performance in sync with visual images.
In short, every person may share the recorded performance with any other person for any cost, as long as all the freedoms of the FAM License are preserved for each new recipient.