# Licensing

Source: https://docs.agentblog.dev/project/licensing
Summary: Three licenses scoped by directory, and the reasoning behind each one.



| Scope                                           | License   | File              |
| ----------------------------------------------- | --------- | ----------------- |
| Code                                            | MIT       | `LICENSE`         |
| The example posts                               | CC0 1.0   | `LICENSE-SEED`    |
| Documentation prose, including the GEO playbook | CC BY 4.0 | `LICENSE-CONTENT` |

## Code: MIT [#code-mit]

A restrictive license on a template whose entire distribution mechanism is
copying files into your repository would be incoherent. MIT matches shadcn,
matches Next.js, and matches every expectation the audience has.

## The example posts: CC0 [#the-example-posts-cc0]

The two posts in `content/blog/` are copied into your repository and become your
published content. Any attribution requirement would mean every AgentBlog user
technically owed credit on their own blog, which is unenforceable and hostile.
CC0 says so explicitly.

Delete them, rewrite them, or publish them as they are. They are yours the
moment they land.

## Documentation: CC BY 4.0 [#documentation-cc-by-40]

This reverses the obvious instinct, which was to stop a competitor reprinting
the playbook.

The realistic threat is scraping, and no license prevents scraping. The
realistic upside is being quoted, and CC BY's attribution requirement is exactly
the citation this product exists to generate. Licensing the best top-of-funnel
asset here so that reproducing it requires a credit link is the most on-thesis
choice available.

So: reproduce these pages, translate them, quote them at length, put them in
your internal wiki, feed them to a model. Credit `agentblog.dev` with a link.

## What each one covers [#what-each-one-covers]

* **MIT:** everything under `packages/`, the code in
  `apps/web/registry/blog/{app,components,lib,hooks,styles}/`, `apps/web/app/`,
  `apps/web/components/`, `apps/web/lib/`, `apps/docs/{app,lib,components}/`,
  `scripts/`, and `plugins/`.
* **CC0:** `apps/web/registry/blog/content/**`.
* **CC BY 4.0:** `apps/docs/content/docs/**`.

SPDX headers mark the boundary in ambiguous files.

## Third-party licenses [#third-party-licenses]

AgentBlog composes shadcn/ui components (MIT) and depends on Next.js, React,
Zod, Tailwind CSS, and the unified ecosystem, all MIT. Nothing in the dependency
tree carries a copyleft obligation.

The typography plugin is MIT. `schema-dts` is Apache 2.0, and it is a
development dependency in the blog: it types the structured data builders and
does not ship to the browser.

## Contributions [#contributions]

By opening a pull request you agree that your contribution is licensed under the
license covering the directory you changed. There is no contributor license
agreement.