# Licence

This repository contains three different kinds of thing, and they do **not**
share a licence. Please read the section that covers what you want to use.

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## 1. The code — proprietary, all rights reserved

Everything under `js/`, `css/`, `geo/js/`, `geo/css/`, `tools/`, `tests/` and
`supabase/`, plus `index.html`, is:

> Copyright © 2026 the QuizMaxx authors. All rights reserved.

No licence to copy, modify, redistribute, host as a service or use commercially
is granted. Having a copy of this code is not a grant of licence to run it.

Licensing enquiries: **support@quizmaxx.app**.

> **Note for the repository owner.** "All rights reserved" is the safest default
> for a project with a paid tier, and it is what the repository already
> implied by having no licence file at all. Two alternatives are worth a
> deliberate decision rather than a default:
>
> - **AGPL-3.0** — genuinely open source, but anyone hosting a modified version
>   must publish their changes. It keeps the project open while making a
>   closed commercial fork impractical. Most "open core" products land here.
> - **MIT** — maximally permissive and best for adoption, but it explicitly
>   permits a competitor to take the code and launch a rival paid service.
>
> If you pick one, replace this section with that licence's **full official
> text** — these licences only work as written, and a paraphrase is worse than
> useless. Do not let me summarise one for you.

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## 2. The questions and written content — not redistributable

`data/*.json` is a mixture with genuinely different provenance:

| Content | Where it came from | Status |
|---|---|---|
| `culture.json`, `sport_rules.json`, `news/` | Written for this project | Owned here |
| `foundation.json`, `people.json`, `general.json` | Imported from third-party Anki decks | **Third-party. Not ours to license.** |
| `countries.json`, `briefs.json` | Imported from the QuizHard project, AI-drafted | Third-party, and unverified |
| `geography.json` | Generated from the map's own datasets | Derived — see the map's sources |

Because of the rows marked third-party, **this project cannot grant you rights
to the question content as a whole.** Do not scrape it, republish it, or ship it
in another product.

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## 3. The images and audio — not in this repository, and not ours

`media/`, `img/` and `geo/img/` are **deliberately excluded** from the repo
(see `.gitignore`). They are fetched from third-party sources by the
`tools/fetch_*.py` scripts and are © their respective owners:

- **Wikimedia Commons** images are under a range of licences — most commonly
  **CC BY-SA**, which requires attribution *and* share-alike; some are
  non-commercial only. The picture decks record a `credit` URL per image
  pointing at the Commons file page, which carries the licence and photographer.
- **Portrait photographs of living people** (`media/`, ~3,271 files) came from a
  third-party Anki deck with no licence metadata. Beyond copyright, images of
  identifiable living people engage personality and data-protection rights.
- **Music previews** are streamed from Apple and Deezer CDNs at runtime and are
  never stored here. Their terms of service govern that use.

### If you are deploying this commercially, read this

Charging for access changes the analysis on all three of the above. "Publicly
available on the internet" is not a licence, and a non-commercial CC licence
that is fine for a free personal tool is not fine for a paid product.

The paid tier (`QuizMaxx Plus`) is therefore deliberately scoped to **services
that do not resell this material** — cross-device sync, current-affairs issues
written for this project, and quiz rounds generated to order for the
subscriber, which are new material rather than a rebadging of the imported
decks. The bundled questions, pictures and maps stay
free for everyone. That is a licensing decision as much as a pricing one, and it
should not be quietly reversed by moving existing content behind the paywall
later.

**This file is a description of the position, not legal advice.** Before taking
money, have a solicitor look at sections 2 and 3 against what you are actually
shipping.