From 380ce53f639147d9e1d37f7710cec90c6c8ad58b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yilin Jing Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:36:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Point to the commercial edition and take a relicensing grant from contributors The README names ReScience Lab Inc. and where to ask about the commercial edition. CONTRIBUTING now has contributors also grant the company the right to relicense their work, so a later licence change does not need every contributor's signature. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 ++++- README.md | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d4a560ee..5ef3932c 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -157,4 +157,7 @@ through private vulnerability reporting; see `SECURITY.md`. ## License By contributing you agree that your contribution is licensed under the -Apache License 2.0, the same as the rest of the repository. +Apache License 2.0, the same as the rest of the repository, and you grant +ReScience Lab Inc. a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to +use, modify, sublicense and relicense it under any terms, including in its +commercial editions. You confirm the contribution is yours to give. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d00aa3fb..2219678e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -262,9 +262,17 @@ version's section in `RELEASE-NOTES.md`, then merge: the tag The whole procedure, including what to do when a step fails, is under "Cutting a release" in `CONTRIBUTING.md`. +## Commercial edition + +This repo is the open-source edition, free to use. A commercial edition is +packaged and supported for studios and teams, from ReScience Lab Inc. +Pricing is by conversation: write to +[yilin.jing@rescience.com](mailto:yilin.jing@rescience.com) with your team size +and what you want to use it for. + ## Licence -This repo is Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`). +This repo is Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`), © ReScience Lab Inc. **The tldraw SDK it depends on is not.** tldraw ships under the [tldraw licence](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/blob/main/LICENSE.md): free From 74b99125ae1aea54944660aa1d901e1e9a482f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yilin Jing Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:52:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Say third-party material in canvases/ is not ours and not in the product The community projects carry other companies' screenshots and brand assets. The README now says they are not under Apache-2.0, that the desktop app and the commercial edition ship none of them, and where to ask for a takedown. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2219678e..a6ee8d02 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -274,6 +274,16 @@ and what you want to use it for. This repo is Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`), © ReScience Lab Inc. +**Third-party material is not.** The community projects in `canvases/` carry +screenshots, logos, app-store images and other brand assets of the products +they study. Those belong to their owners, are not licensed under Apache-2.0 +here, and are included only to research and demonstrate the method. ReScience +Lab Inc. is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of those companies. None of +this material ships in the desktop app, which has bundled only +`canvases/templates` since 1.7.0, or in the commercial edition. To have +something taken down, write to +[yilin.jing@rescience.com](mailto:yilin.jing@rescience.com). + **The tldraw SDK it depends on is not.** tldraw ships under the [tldraw licence](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/blob/main/LICENSE.md): free to use with the tldraw watermark visible, paid business licence to remove it. From 0a5d374de408106ad5660c84e9b8f4bf540d9143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yilin Jing Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:22:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Correct the tldraw and template-shell notes, and name the company in LICENSE tldraw 5.x needs a licence key in production, not just a visible watermark. The iPhone shell in canvases/templates is third-party and does ship, so the README says so. LICENSE's copyright line now reads ReScience Lab Inc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +- LICENSE | 2 +- README.md | 10 ++++++---- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 5ef3932c..988a4e3f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -158,6 +158,6 @@ through private vulnerability reporting; see `SECURITY.md`. By contributing you agree that your contribution is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, the same as the rest of the repository, and you grant -ReScience Lab Inc. a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to +ReScience Lab Inc. a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, modify, sublicense and relicense it under any terms, including in its commercial editions. You confirm the contribution is yours to give. diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index 3137ef74..41402703 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier identification within third-party archives. - Copyright 2026 ReScience Lab + Copyright 2026 ReScience Lab Inc. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a6ee8d02..a264b01e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -280,12 +280,14 @@ they study. Those belong to their owners, are not licensed under Apache-2.0 here, and are included only to research and demonstrate the method. ReScience Lab Inc. is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of those companies. None of this material ships in the desktop app, which has bundled only -`canvases/templates` since 1.7.0, or in the commercial edition. To have +`canvases/templates` since 1.7.0, or in the commercial edition. The one +third-party image that does ship is the iPhone shell in `canvases/templates`, +from a Figma Community mockup and under that file's own terms. To have something taken down, write to [yilin.jing@rescience.com](mailto:yilin.jing@rescience.com). **The tldraw SDK it depends on is not.** tldraw ships under the [tldraw licence](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/blob/main/LICENSE.md): free -to use with the tldraw watermark visible, paid business licence to remove it. -Apache-2.0 here covers this repo's own code only. Anyone running the canvas -is bound by tldraw's terms, and the watermark must stay. +in development, but any production deployment, the hosted canvas included, +needs a licence key from tldraw. Apache-2.0 here covers this repo's own code +only. Anyone running the canvas is bound by tldraw's terms.