Add asset licensing notices (#11397)

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: surfdude29 <149612116+surfdude29@users.noreply.github.com>
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2026-08-12 15:49:31 +03:00
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@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ Please be sure to:
- Change all branding in the repository and UI to clearly differentiate from Bluesky.
- Change any support links (feedback, email, terms of service, etc) to your own systems.
- Replace any analytics or error-collection systems with your own so we don't get super confused.
- Replace the load-screen illustration in `assets/splash/`. It is commissioned artwork licensed to Bluesky alone, and our MIT license does not cover it.
- Source your own UI icons. The glyph set in `assets/icons/` is licensed to us by a third party for our own use, and that license does not extend to you.
- Replace the Bluesky logo, app icons, and other brand assets. Our trademarks are not licensed with the code.
Please read [./ASSETS.md](./ASSETS.md) before you ship. Not every file in this repository is
covered by our MIT license — some of the artwork, icons, fonts, and brand assets are licensed to
us by third parties or are trademarks, and `ASSETS.md` says which ones and what to do about them.
That file is new. Its absence is why some forks have shipped assets they did not have rights to,
and that was our omission rather than theirs.
## Security disclosures
@@ -68,7 +77,11 @@ Bluesky is an open social network built on the AT Protocol, a flexible technolog
## License (MIT)
See [./LICENSE](./LICENSE) for the full license.
See [./LICENSE](./LICENSE) for the full license, which covers the source code in this repository.
It does not cover every file. Certain images, icons, fonts, and brand assets are licensed to us
by third parties, or are trademarks, and are carved out — see [./ASSETS.md](./ASSETS.md). Required
third-party attribution notices are collected in [./NOTICE.md](./NOTICE.md).
Bluesky Social PBC has committed to a software patent non-aggression pledge. For details see [the original announcement](https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge).