The FAL provides copyright protection for publishers who wish to receive attribution for their material that they allow others to use free of charge, but require attribution through links.

The FAL was developed to provide attribution for material that the Creative commons license, the MIT License, and the GNU Lesser General Public Licensing fail to achieve.

When wishing to provide your material free of charge to third parties for their benefit, but wishing to retain rights of ownership, credits and full attribution from your work, the Full Attribution License provides you with the solution.

The main core of the license demands that in return for allowing free use of the said material, that the utilizer (user) provides a link from their website to your website directly as requested within the license.

The link they provide must linked to no more than one link from their home-page and the links shall be free of the rel='no=follow' attribute, thus gaining maximum linkage from search engines such as Google Page Rank for example, as they quantify a pages value for their index.

Copyright (c) 2008 (YOUR NAME) (YOUR WEBSITE) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this material and all associated documentation files, to deal in the material without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub-license, and/or sell copies of the material, and to permit persons to whom the material is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: That a link is placed on the user's website to the creator of this material, also that the 'links page' or 'about page' where the link is placed must also be directly linked to from the home-page of the user's web site. As follows: 1) The users home page has a link to an about page (for example), 2) that the about page has a link back to the creator of this material. An example of the link code would be: <a href='http://www.example.com'>(YOUR TEXT HERE)</a> There shall also be no use of the rel='no=follow' attribute in any of the links, either the link to the site or the link from the home-page of the users site to the about or links page. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included within all copies or substantial portions of the material where code or content is hidden from public view. THE MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE MATERIAL OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE MATERIAL.