# OpenFare

> Micropayment funded software.

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**OpenFare is a funding mechanism which is deployable with one commit.**

The goal: fund the next million software content creators.

OpenFare can be used to fund open source or commercial software at any scale. It is a decentralized protocol which defines how payees can be paid.

With OpenFare, payments are managed programmatically. Payment plans and methods are defined in code. Which leads to the following advantages:

* Donations span the entire software dependency tree. Critical software which is outside the limelight is supported.

* Micropayment obligations for commercial software can be managed across thousands of software dependencies.

Join the [chat room](https://matrix.to/#/#openfare:matrix.org) to discuss further.

## Summary

* [Introduction](https://openfare.dev/doc/introduction/index.html)
  * [Funding FOSS](https://openfare.dev/doc/introduction/funding_foss.html)
  * [Micropriced Commercial Software](https://openfare.dev/doc/introduction/openfare_license.html)
* [Installation](https://openfare.dev/doc/installation.html)
* [Command Line Tool](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/index.html)
  * [Profile](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/profile.html)
  * [Lock](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/lock.html)
  * [Service](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/service/index.html)
    * [LNPAY](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/service/lnpay.html)
  * [Pay](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/pay.html)
  * [Price](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/price.html)
  * [Config](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/config.html)
  * [Extensions](https://openfare.dev/doc/cli/extensions.html)