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 except for computer hardware and software, including for commercial use.
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.
[4] In 2005, Moreau wrote a memoir edited by Liliane Terrier entitled in French: Le copyleft appliqué à la création artistique.
The license was inspired by FLOSS licenses and issues related but not exclusive to digital arts:[7] It was born out of the observation of the world of free software and the Internet, but its applicability is not limited to digital support.Version 1.1 was adopted by art organizations like Constant (Brussels) and was translated into English by artist and technologist Antoine Schmitt.
[8] The Free Art License 1.3 has been declared compatible with CC BY-SA 4.0,[9] but incompatible with the GNU GPL.