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Context

The repository is public. The root LICENSE says “All rights reserved” and every member’s package.json says "license": "UNLICENSED", because the earlier plan kept everything private. Products in other repositories install these packages (0023), and a framework nobody may legally use is not a framework. Some files in the tree are not ours to license: fonts arrive under the SIL Open Font License, and brand marks must not become free to reuse.

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Decision

  1. Code is MIT. The root LICENSE is the MIT text. Every member’s LICENSE stays a byte-identical copy of it (0013), and every package.json says "license": "MIT".
  2. Brand assets are excluded: all rights reserved. Logos, marks and social images carry a NOTICE in their own folder (for @stackra/brand, assets/NOTICE) stating the exclusion. The member LICENSE stays the root copy; the NOTICE narrows it.
  3. Fonts keep their own licence. Geist, Geist Mono and IBM Plex Sans Arabic ship with their OFL texts beside the files (assets/public/fonts/OFL-*.txt), as today.
  4. Code from paid licences is never committed. HeroUI Pro, Uniwind Pro and similar are consumed as dependencies only; no copied component, generated source or licence key enters the tree.
  5. A new exclusion needs a NOTICE in its folder in the same change that adds the files.

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Consequences

  • Anyone may use the code; nobody may reuse the Stackra marks.
  • This reverses the earlier “all private (UNLICENSED)” plan. The validator, /standards/members and the scaffold templates change together when this ADR is accepted.
  • The copyright line in the MIT text names Figentra Technologies FZ-LLC, as the current LICENSE does.

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Enforcement

Planned — tools/scripts/validate-repository.mjs (checkFiles) currently requires license to be "UNLICENSED"; it changes to expect "MIT" and keeps the LICENSE-equals-root check. Planned — a check that packages/experience/brand/assets/NOTICE exists. Nothing checks rule 4 today; gitleaks does not detect copied source.

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Supersedes and sources

Supersedes: none. Changes the licence rule documented in /standards/members. Sources: owner decision in chat, 2026-10-19; packages/experience/brand/assets/public/fonts/OFL-*.txt.