Preamble
Copyright laws began appearing after the printing press was invented, as a tool for protecting an artist from piracy. Over the centuries, this has changed into a device which protects corporations, rather than artists, and restricts the rights of both the artists and the consumers. The Free Artist Community License (FACL) is designed to reclaim and protect product control for the artist while providing freedoms for the consumer as relates to the Free Artist Community, and to define specific rights to both the artist and the consumer. The license is required to ensure that these rights are maintained and to ensure that the person who created the licensed material will always receive credit for their work.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. This License applies to any work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of the Free Artist Community License (hereinafter FACL). The "Composition", below, refers to any such work, and a "work based on the Composition" means either the Composition or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Composition or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Composition in the form you receive it, or in any other medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately provide with each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License; and give any other recipients of the work a copy of this License along with the work.
All copies of the work must be in a usable format without limitations on type of use or duration of use. For example, a work under this license cannot be distributed in a format which has Digital Rights Management attached to it (which restricts its use or makes it unusable after a given amount of time has passed). A licensee may provide copies in a usable format that is of a lower quality than the original (for example, a person could take an uncompressed .wav file and make it into an mp3 file in order to distribute it on his web server or play it in his podcast).
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Composition or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Composition, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of this license, provided that you meet all of these conditions:
a) You must include with the new work prominent notices stating that you have changed the work, the date of any change, the author of the original work, the title of the original work, and the URL to the original work if a URL is available.
b) You must cause any new work that you distribute or make available, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Composition or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
These requirements apply to the new work as a whole. If identifiable sections of the new work are not derived from the Composition, and can be reasonably considered independent and a separate work in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Composition, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who created it.
(For example, I put out a song under FACL. You make a movie and want to use my song for music in an action sequence. You have the right to do so, but you must then place the entire movie under FACL. If for some reason, you cut the scene with my song on the editing room floor then you can distribute your movie without placing it under FACL. The director's cut, with my song placed back into the movie, however would have to be placed under FACL.)
It is not the intention of FACL to claim rights or contest your rights to work created entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works of a work under FACL.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the original work with the Composition (or with a work based on the Composition) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
3. You may not copy, modify, sub license, or distribute the Composition except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sub license or distribute the Composition is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
4. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Composition or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Composition (or any work based on the Composition), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Composition or works based on it.
5. Each time you redistribute the Composition (or any work based on the Composition), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Composition subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
6. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Composition at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Composition by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Composition.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of FACL, which is implemented by public license practices.
This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.
7. If the distribution and/or use of the Composition is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Composition under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
8.The Free Artist Community may publish revised and/or new versions of the Free Artist Community License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Composition specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Artist Community. If the Composition does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Artist Community.
References
The Free Artist Community License is an attempt to provide a license in the spirit of the GNU Public License (GPL) to the Free Artist Community. As such, it uses many elements of the GPL which can be found here:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html