From 8abde75133d2d66fe73b8184eaec8372efae2abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Thomas Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:14:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Relicense ArtCraft under MIT OR Apache-2.0 (#2043) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ## Summary - Removes the WIP fair-source `LICENSE.md` and adds `LICENSE-MIT` and `LICENSE-APACHE`, matching PhotoCraft, LightCraft, and the other craft apps. - Adds `NOTICE`, which lists bundled third-party material (ammo.js, the vendored tauri-plugin-http, normalize.css, three-dots, Font Awesome icons, the Carter One font) and says that provider logos are trademarks of their owners. - Updates the README's License section, and sets `license` in `crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml` and `frontend/package.json` to `MIT OR Apache-2.0`. ## Follow-up needed `NOTICE` excludes assets that ArtCraft doesn't own: Nintendo sound effects in `resources/sound/`, meme images, the AllSky-style gray/night skyboxes, the Lumine VMD, and the Mixamo animation GIFs. The exclusion only says these files aren't MIT/Apache. They still need to be replaced or removed in a separate PR. Nobody has confirmed where the avatars, default covers, `characters/img*.png`, and the day skybox came from. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 --- LICENSE-APACHE | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSE-MIT | 21 ++++ LICENSE.md | 86 -------------- NOTICE | 48 ++++++++ README.md | 8 +- crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml | 2 +- frontend/package.json | 2 +- 7 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-) create mode 100644 LICENSE-APACHE create mode 100644 LICENSE-MIT delete mode 100644 LICENSE.md create mode 100644 NOTICE diff --git a/LICENSE-APACHE b/LICENSE-APACHE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f433b1a53f --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE-APACHE @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ + + Apache License + Version 2.0, January 2004 + http://www.apache.org/licenses/ + + TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION + + 1. 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You can back up, copy, modify, compile, and use the code for your own private personal purposes. -> -> 3. You can do anything you want with the media you create with ArtCraft. Generated assets are yours. - -What you *can't do* with ArtCraft: - -> 1. You cannot sell the ArtCraft software commercially (eg. as your own software). -> -> 2. You cannot use the ArtCraft code to develop a competing business or product (eg. selling AI image and video tools). -> -> 3. You cannot fork ArtCraft and remove ArtCraft community, donation links, or paid model services. We intend to -> make money to improve ArtCraft for everyone. -> -> 4. You cannot use the ArtCraft name, logo, or mascot characters to promote your business without permission. - -This license means you can see what we're doing and not be at risk of having the rug pulled out from under -you (eg. if our founders die, if our business collapses, if zombies or space aliens invade). It also gives -you a really great way to customize the software or lend a hand in reporting (or even fixing) bugs. - -Our desire is to support artists, designers, and filmmakers. We want to help you build your own creative studios -and businesses. We want to give you creative software you can use forever. - -ArtCraft is free. We do offer models available through us where you can pay us and support our development, but we also -offer the ability for you to use other providers - and we'll keep adding more options so you have maximum flexibility. - -## Our Promise - -- All development and business plans will be communicated openly with the community. - -- Except for minor test scripts or a few small places where we might need to use licensed 3rd party code, all of - our engineering efforts will live in a single publicly available monorepo. You can see everything we do and even - benefit from using it for personal use. We plan on building a lot more than what you see today, and you'll get - all of it. - -- We will not "rug pull" our users. If our business shuts down, gets acquired, or otherwise changes, the tools - we create will always continue to function in the same way. - -- If the business ends and our founders quit working in this space, we'll make it so the software transitions - to an OSI-approved open source license. (We don't intend to quit!) - -## Why not OSI Open Source? - -Philosophical answer: The OSI is an industry body led by hyperscalers. They poach from open source all the time, yet -hyperscaler systems and code (AWS, GCP, YouTube, etc.) remain closed source. The tiniest nuggets are open, but the vast -machinery surrounding it - systems, user behaviors, funnels, at-scale moneymakers - is totally closed. - -Practical answer: OSI licenses make it exceptionally challenging to grow big things commercially. And many of -the licenses leave room for hyperscalers to reach in and cherry-pick pieces for themselves that they can better -commercialize than the original authors. - -Then there's completely open source software that doesn't even attempt to be a business. - -We love software like Blender, but (1) developing ArtCraft is our full-time job, (2) we want to build something at scale -that is much bigger than what you presently see, and (3) this will eventually become much more capital intensive than -just writing code - we want to train novel models that work directly in conjunction with the user interface. - -If and when we do get to scale, we intend to keep every bit of our work in the open, including the models. Available -for use, inspection, learning, fitting onto consumer GPU hardware, and more. - -Not having a way to make money is unfortunately what killed Stability.ai. Stability.ai walked so that others could -eventually run. (Black Forest Labs, et al.) We're not egotistical enough to count ourselves in that party yet, but we -believe in the original Stability.ai ethos and that their model can work with a few tweaks. - -We want to build big and incredible tools the world hasn't seen before. We want to keep them free and entirely source -available. You don't have to pay us, but if you do, all of your investment goes right back into the engineering -and the tools. We're writing code you can clone and keep. - -## Inspiration - -We took inspiration for this from [Fair Source](https://fair.io/), [Fair Code](https://faircode.io/), -the [Defold License](https://defold.com/license/), and Hacker News discussions. The folks at Obsidian -have some pretty good thoughts on this as well. - -~ Brandon Thomas diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1b4688ade3 --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTICE @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +ArtCraft +Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the ArtCraft contributors. +Licensed under the MIT License or the Apache License, Version 2.0, at your option +(LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE). + +The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team. They are not covered +by the license above. + +Third-party material + +This product bundles third-party material under its own licenses, listed below. + +ammo.js (frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/jsm/libs/ammo.wasm.*) — zlib License. A port of the + Bullet Physics engine. https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js +tauri-plugin-http (crates/vendor/tauri-plugin-http/) — MIT or Apache-2.0. Copyright (c) 2017 - + Present Tauri Apps Contributors; Copyright 2019-2023 Tauri Programme within The Commons + Conservancy. Modified fork; see that directory's LICENSE_MIT and LICENSE_APACHE-2.0. +normalize.css v8.0.1 (frontend/apps/artcraft/app/src/styles/normalize.css) — MIT License. + Copyright (c) Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal. https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css +three-dots v0.3.2 (portion of frontend/apps/artcraft/app/src/styles/base.css) — MIT License. + Copyright (c) 2018 nzbin. https://nzbin.github.io/three-dots/ +Font Awesome Free icons (frontend/libs/icons/src/lib/brand-icons.tsx, + frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/images/services/generic.svg) — CC BY 4.0. + Copyright Fonticons, Inc. https://fontawesome.com/license/free +Carter One font (frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/fonts/CarterOneRegular.json) — + SIL Open Font License 1.1. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Carter+One + +Third-party trademarks + +The AI provider and service logos in frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/images/services/ +are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used only to identify those services and are +not covered by the license above. + +Material not covered by the license above + +The following files are owned by third parties. They are not licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, +and no rights to them are granted by this repository. They remain the property of their +respective owners. These assets will be phased out of ArtCraft over time. + +frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/sound/ — sound effects from Nintendo games (Golden + Sun, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario RPG). +frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/memes/ — meme images and likenesses owned by their + respective rights holders. +frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/skybox/gray/ and skybox/night/ — skybox textures + from a third-party asset pack. +frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/pose/Lumine Idle cycle.vmd — third-party MMD motion + data. +frontend/apps/artcraft/app/public/resources/characters_gif/ — renders of Mixamo animations. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b5d1e2c548..26fe959076 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -136,4 +136,10 @@ Additional provider integrations are planned for Kling, Google, Runway, and Luma - [Developer documentation](./_docs) - [Desktop build and development scripts](./script/artcraft) - [Roadmap](./ROADMAP.md) -- [License](./LICENSE.md) +- [License](#license) + +## License + +ArtCraft is dual-licensed under [MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or [Apache-2.0](LICENSE-APACHE), at your option. +Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the ArtCraft contributors. Required notices, including +third-party material not covered by this license, are in [NOTICE](NOTICE). diff --git a/crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml b/crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml index 8ccb2a9244..51ff6bcd94 100644 --- a/crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml +++ b/crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "artcraft" version = "0.0.1" description = "Artcraft" authors = ["you"] -license = "" +license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0" repository = "" edition = "2021" rust-version = "1.77.2" diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json index 43c9e340e9..b5a927f25f 100644 --- a/frontend/package.json +++ b/frontend/package.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "name": "@frontend/source", "version": "0.0.0", - "license": "MIT", + "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0", "scripts": { "test:desktop-session": "node tools/testing/desktop-session.mjs", "perf:desktop": "node tools/performance/run.mjs"