For independent software creators
Fair pay for shared work.
Sharing software should be sustainable for the people who create and maintain it. Choose your license, describe your paid offering and set up your product.
From principle to practice
Share your work.
Sustain the people behind it.
You decide what stays freely available and what people pay for.
Sharing your work should come with choices.
For example, you might allow free use by qualifying worker-owned cooperatives, sell commercial permissions to larger companies, or offer paid support for freely available software.
Start with your product and terms:
01
Choose your terms
Compare licenses by their actual conditions. Read the full text, or bring your own.
02
Set up compensation
Offer paid licenses or support, with a one-time price or a subscription.
03
Keep creating
Give people their keys and a record of their terms. Manage access and billing in one place.
Fair labor is the purpose.
There’s more than one way to support it.
We help independent creators make a living from useful software. Fair Labor License is one option. Peer Production, other established licenses, and your own terms offer others.
Our open letter explains the philosophy. The Fair Labor License puts it into specific compensation and wealth thresholds. Both are available to read now.