) Free Art License logo | |
| Latest version | 1.3 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Copyleft Attitude |
| Published | 8 April 2007[1] |
| SPDX identifier | LAL-1.2, LAL-1.3 |
| FSF approved | Yes |
| GPL compatible | No |
| Copyleft | Yes |
| Website | artlibre.org |
The Free Art License (FAL), (French: Licence Art Libre (LAL)) is a copyleft license that grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works.
History
The license was written in July 2000 with contributions from the mailing list <copyleft_attitude
April.org> and in particular with French lawyers Mélanie Clément-Fontaine and David Geraud, and French artists Isabelle Vodjdani and Antoine Moreau. It followed meetings held by Copyleft Attitude Antoine Moreau with the artists gathered around the magazine Allotopie: Francis Deck, Antonio Gallego, Roberto Martinez and Emma Gall. They took place at "Accès Local" in January 2000 and "Public" in March 2000, two places of contemporary art in Paris.[2]
In 2003, Moreau organized a session at the EOF space which brought together hundreds of authors to achieve exposure according to the principles of copyleft with this condition: "Free Admission if free work".[3] In 2005, he wrote a memoir edited by Liliane Terrier entitled in French: Le copyleft appliqué à la création artistique. Le collectif Copyleft Attitude et la Licence Art Libre (Copyleft applied to artistic creation. The Copyleft Attitude collective and the Free Art License).[4]
In 2007, version 1.3 of the Free Art License was amended to provide greater legal certainty and optimum compatibility with other copyleft licenses.[5]
See also
References
- ^ LAL 1.3, copy in Internet Archive (in French)
- ^ The first meetings of Copyleft Attitude, copy in Internet Archive (in French)
- ^ Copyleft Session :: eof Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Le copyleft appliqué à la création artistique. Le collectif Copyleft Attitude et la Licence Art Libre
- ^ Article introducing FAL 1.3 by Antoine Moreau
External links
- The Free Art License; The Free Art License at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 February 2014) (in English)
- Licence Art Libre; Licence Art Libre at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 February 2014) (in French)
- Freemages : a library of photos under Free Art License (in English)