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Promote "hard to violate" to the Definition
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README.md

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can have highly variable implementations.
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For **licenses**, we're still working out specifics but we intend to be fairly
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stringent in order to avoid license proliferation. Of course your license must
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meet the [Fair Source Definition](https://fair.io/about/). It must also not put
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an undue burden on the user to monitor their compliance with your license (any
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compliance checks should be built into your software itself). It should also be
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adopted at more than one company, at least.
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stringent in order to avoid license proliferation. Uour license must meet the
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[Fair Source Definition](https://fair.io/about/), and it should be adopted at
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more than one company, at least.

src/pages/about.astro

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to protect the producer’s business model; and
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<li>undergoes delayed Open Source publication (DOSP).</li>
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<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
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burden on the user to monitor their compliance with the license.
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For the most part, compliance checks should be built into the software
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itself. It should be difficult to violate the license terms.
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<h3>Why Fair Source?</h3>
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