This note contains information about different licenses that are commonly used on Modrinth. Mainly I have this note here as quick reference to check which mods require additional attribution on the mod packs’ home pages.
Lucent
Home itself is licensed under an LGPL-3.0-or-later.
The original content in the documentation for Lucent is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full license here. For anyone wanting to use, adapt or redistribute this documentation, this means they are required to give credit to this wiki as its source, and license any adaptations of our content under the same license terms.
The externally sourced content in the documentation for Lucent necessarily complies with the original source’s license terms. If the source has a permissive, copyleft license, that doesn’t require our redistribution to be licensed under the same terms, it will still be licensed under the source license. It does not make sense for us to impose license terms on content that we did not write.
Icons in the titles are from Streamline Vector. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Hence this attribution notice.
ARR
ARR is short for All Rights Reserved. This means that the code cannot be adapted, copies or redistributed without the author’s explicit permission. All mods using ARR will have additional attribution on Lucent packs. This is not required as per ARR specifications, but we do this in good faith to cover edge cases.
CC
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted “work”. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created.
All CC licenses can be found here.
CC licenses (except for CC0) require attribution.
BY - Credit must be given to the creator (Attribution).
NC - Only noncommercial use of the work is permitted.
ND - No derivate works or adaptations are permitted.
SA - Derivative works or adaptations must be Shared Alike (under the same license terms).
License versions:
CC BY 4.0CC BY-SA 4.0CC BY-NC 4.0CC BY-NC-SA 4.0CC BY-ND 4.0CC BY-NC-ND 4.0CC0 1.0- Copyright on the work has been waived, and the work has been dedicated to the public domain.
GPL
GPL or GNU General Public License, are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software…Wikipedia
Most notably, GPL is copyleft, which means that any derivative work must be distributed under the same or equivalent license terms.
GPL does not require attribution.
License versions:
GPL-3.0-or-laterGPL-3.0-onlyGPL-2.0-or-laterGPL-2.0-onlyGPL-1.0-or-laterGPL-1.0-only
AGPL
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the Affero General Public License (non-GNU). It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network…
Wikipedia
Similar to GPL, AGPL does not require attribution.
License versions:
AGPL-3.0-or-laterAGPL-3.0-only
LGPL
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components. Wikipedia
In short, this is GPL but unlike GPL you don’t have to distribute your entire derivative codebase under the same license terms. You only have to distribute your adaptations of the original source under LGPL or equivalent.
Like GPL and AGPL, LGPL does not require attribution
License versions:
LGPL-3.0-or-laterLGPL-3.0-onlyLGPL-2.1-or-laterLGPL-2.1-onlyLGPL-2.0-or-laterLGPL-2.0-only
Apache
The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify it, and to distribute modified versions of the software under the terms of the license, without concern for royalties. Wikipedia
Apache requires attribution. From Apache-1.1 on it doesn’t require attribution in advertising, only in documentation.
License versions:
Apache-2.0Apache-1.1Apache-1.0
Polyform
PolyForm is a project to draft and make freely available plain-language source code licenses with limited rights.
Polyform licenses require attribution in the form of a copyright notice with a link to the source.
License versions:
PolyForm-ShieldPolyForm-StrictPolyForm-NoncommercialPolyForm-Free-TrialPolyForm-Internal-UsePolyForm-Small-BusinessPolyForm-Perimeter
MPL
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird. Wikipedia
MPL does not require attribution.
License versions:
MPL-2.0MPL-1.1MPL-1.0
MIT
The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[6] in the late 1980s.[7] As a permissive license, it puts few restrictions on reuse and has high license compatibility. Wikipedia
MIT does not require attribution.
Unlicense
The Unlicense is a public domain equivalent license for software which provides a public domain waiver with a fall-back public-domain-like license, similar to the CC Zero for cultural works. It includes language used in earlier software projects and has a focus on an anti-copyright message. Wikipedia
Other
Some mod packs provide different or unique licenses which we will indicate with “Other” in the frontmatter / metadata. The licenses will still be linked to, and any required additional information will be included on each respective mod page.