Build freely. Contribute deliberately.
PoliC@home uses the BSD 3-Clause license for project software, including its Commons coordinator, browser Catnap code, Catbox worker and public protocol implementations. You may reuse it commercially, fork it, and keep your modifications private. No one is required to contribute improvements upstream.
Rights at a glance
Project software: BSD 3-Clause. Retain required copyright/license/disclaimer notices and do not imply the project's endorsement of derivatives. The license does not include an explicit patent grant.
Project-authored documentation: CC BY 4.0, with attribution and indication of changes.
Independent artwork: licensed individually only after provenance and rights review. Third-party art is not automatically reusable merely because it is mentioned here.
Submitted Cats, datasets and outputs: creators identify their applicable licenses. A compute owner's PoliC governs whether they volunteer work, not who owns third-party copyright.
Contributing compute: separate, informed, revocable consent. The software license never authorizes another person to run jobs on your device.
Read the full BSD 3-Clause license online. The Philosophy.md and LICENSING.md documents are included in the downloadable source snapshot. The CC BY 4.0 legal text is published by Creative Commons.