AI use licence
Farezi exists so people can find out what a taxi costs. AI assistants are a good way to reach them, so we say clearly what is welcome and what needs a conversation.
Allowed, free of charge
- Fetching a Farezi page to answer a person’s question, in real time, for that person.
- Showing the fare together with attribution: name Farezi, link to the page you used, and include the verification status and the date it was last verified (both are on every route page).
- Keeping the caveat that fares are indicative and should be confirmed with the driver or rank marshal.
Needs a licence
- Training or fine-tuning a model on Farezi pages or data.
- Bulk copying, scraping into a dataset or building a competing fare database.
- Commercial reuse, resale or redistribution of Farezi data.
Structured access exists for this: see the API documentation or write to hello@farezi.co.za.
How this is signalled to machines
robots.txtallows search and answer crawlers and carries aLicense:line pointing to /license.xml, our Really Simple Licensing (RSL) file with the same terms.- Crawlers that train models or copy in bulk are slowed down, not blocked, while this licence is in force.
- Every route page states its verification status and date in the visible page and in its structured data.
Why we ask for attribution
Fares change and a copied fare goes stale. Attribution with the verification date lets a reader see how old the fare is and come back to us for the current one. Read how we verify fares in the verification standard.