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Relicense ArtCraft under MIT OR Apache-2.0 (#2043)

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## 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.

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MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the ArtCraft contributors
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ArtCraft License (WIP)
======================
(**Warning**: This isn't a real lawyery license full of legitimate legalese yet, but we'll take care of that ASAP.)
ArtCraft is a form of "fair source" software. It's like [free beer](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free_as_in_beer)
in that we give you the code, but there are a few small limitations on what you can do with it.
First, what you *can* do with ArtCraft:
> 1. You do not have to pay us to use ArtCraft. It's free.
>
> 2. 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
NOTICE
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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.
README.md
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- [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).
crates/desktop/artcraft/Cargo.toml
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version = "0.0.1"
description = "Artcraft"
authors = ["you"]
license = ""
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
repository = ""
edition = "2021"
rust-version = "1.77.2"
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{
"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"