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Promote "hard to violate" to the Definition
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chadwhitacre committed Jan 21, 2025
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can have highly variable implementations.

For **licenses**, we're still working out specifics but we intend to be fairly
stringent in order to avoid license proliferation. Of course your license must
meet the [Fair Source Definition](https://fair.io/about/). It must also not put
an undue burden on the user to monitor their compliance with your license (any
compliance checks should be built into your software itself). It should also be
adopted at more than one company, at least.
stringent in order to avoid license proliferation. Uour license must meet the
[Fair Source Definition](https://fair.io/about/), and it should be adopted at
more than one company, at least.
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to protect the producer’s business model; and
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<li>undergoes delayed Open Source publication (DOSP).</li>
<li>does not put an undue burden on the user to monitor their compliance.</li>
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Will this be meaningful in practice? Again, time will tell.
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The fourth point is that Fair Source software must not put an undue
burden on the user to monitor their compliance with the license.
For the most part, compliance checks should be built into the software
itself. It should be difficult to violate the license terms.
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<h3>Why Fair Source?</h3>

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