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docs: High-risk guide written for readers; ROADMAP matches what shipped
- docs/high-risk.md is now "Free sources that aren't safe to ship": a reader introduction, reader advice in place of "do not catalog" instructions, and entry links in place of repo paths. Its site title follows. - ROADMAP: the guide pages and engine filter move from Planned to Done. (Releases are real now: v2026.11.01 is tagged, so the Done line and docs/data.md's pointer to releases stand.) Closes #178 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LpkeXRUqm7oDedPDk3QWtK
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‎ROADMAP.md‎

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- A changelog page generated from [docs/review-ledger.md](docs/review-ledger.md).
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- Full-text search over entry bodies (Notes and Evidence), not only names, tags and summaries.
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- The guides rendered as site pages, and an engine filter on the site (see the
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[`feature`](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/labels/feature) label).
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## Done
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- Site search across names, tags and summaries, with licence, format and category filters.
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- The guides in docs/ rendered as site pages, and an engine filter that hides projects,
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addons and plugins for other engines.
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- Accessibility fixes: focus handling, contrast, heading outline and tap targets (Lighthouse
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accessibility 100).
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- Thin categories topped up: 15 video, animation and environment sources (2026-10-04).

‎docs/high-risk.md‎

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# Do not catalog / high risk
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# Free sources that aren't safe to ship
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Sources that fail our commercial-safety bar. Keep out of `status: active` listings; link here only as warnings.
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These sources are free to download, or look free, but their terms make them unsafe in a commercial game: non-commercial or research-only licences, copyleft that can reach your own code or meshes, engine locks, or no readable licence at all. Some rows are a trap inside a source the catalog does list (GPL posts on Godot Shaders, share-alike LPC sheets); read the row before you take from it. Where a safer alternative exists, the row names it.
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| Source | Why |
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| **SMPL / SMPL-X (free academic license)** | Free download is **non-commercial scientific/education/artistic only**; commercial use needs a paid Meshcapade / MPI license. |
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| **MB-Lab / CharMorph `mb_*` bases** | AGPL v3 can attach to generated meshes — unsafe for closed-source games. CharMorph-db ships `mb_female` under AGPL (Antonia is CC-BY-3.0). Prefer MakeHuman / MPFB (CC0 core exports). |
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| **Shadertoy (default)** | Default **CC BY-NC-SA 3.0** unless an author states otherwise. Do not port into commercial builds without explicit permission. |
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| **GodotShaders.com GPL v3 posts** | Site allows commercial use of shader **code**, but submitters may pick **GPL v3** — viral copyleft risk for closed-source games. Prefer CC0/MIT posts only; see `catalog/shaders-vfx/godot-shaders.md`. |
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| **GodotShaders.com GPL v3 posts** | Site allows commercial use of shader **code**, but submitters may pick **GPL v3** — viral copyleft risk for closed-source games. Use CC0 or MIT posts only; see the [Godot Shaders](../catalog/shaders-vfx/godot-shaders.md) entry. |
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| **Bandai Namco mocap datasets** | CC-BY-NC — research/non-commercial only. |
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| **Ubisoft LaFAN1 / La Forge Animation Dataset** | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 — non-commercial, no derivatives; unusable for shipping games. |
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| **SFU Motion Capture Database** | Explicitly free for research only — “cannot be used for commercial products or resale.” |
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| **AMASS** | Live `license.html` (2026-08-25): “non-commercial scientific research” and “use for commercial purposes, is prohibited.” Meshes are SMPL, so the SMPL commercial lock also applies. |
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| **Human3.6M** | Live EULA (2026-08-25): “GRANT OF LICENSE FREE OF CHARGE FOR ACADEMIC USE ONLY.” Free tier is academic; commercial licensing is a separate paid path. |
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| **Ready Player Me** | Homepage and `/legal` connection refused (2026-08-25). GitHub `animation-library` LICENSE.md: animations “licensed for use with Ready Player Me Avatars”; use with other characters “is prohibited.” Avatar mesh terms were not readable on 2026-08-25. Do not catalog until the live site terms load. |
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| **Ready Player Me** | Homepage and `/legal` connection refused (2026-08-25). GitHub `animation-library` LICENSE.md: animations “licensed for use with Ready Player Me Avatars”; use with other characters “is prohibited.” Avatar mesh terms were not readable on 2026-08-25, so treat the avatars as unlicensed until you can read them. |
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| **ElevenLabs / similar free TTS tiers** | Free tiers often **non-commercial**; commercial rights sit behind paid plans. Prefer local Apache/MIT TTS (Kokoro, Piper Plus). |
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| **Google Maps / Earth meshes** | Scraping via RenderDoc/plugins violates ToS — not public domain. |
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| **ColorADD symbols** | Proprietary accessibility coding system; needs a paid license. |
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| **LPC / CC-BY-SA sprites** | Commercial OK with SA obligations on asset derivatives; keep sheets extractable; not “CC0-like.” |
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| **Font Awesome brand icons** | Brand marks only for representing those brands — not generic UI decoration. |
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| **GTA V / RDR2 game files and rips** | Rockstar / Take-Two IP. Owning the game (or running FiveM) licenses play, not redistribution of extracted `ydr` / `ytd` / `ymap` / MLO interiors. Not a free asset library. See [`fivem.md`](fivem.md). |
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| **FiveM “free props” dumps** | Anonymous GitHub trees, MLO leaks, escrow bypasses, and Tebex reuploads are stolen or unlicensed regardless of a CC0 badge. Do not catalog. |
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| **Cfx Marketplace / forum Releases (as a blanket source)** | Per-resource terms. Cfx is not a commercial grant. Live Finding Resources (2026-08-25): “Use resources at your own risk.” Do not treat the marketplace as CC0. |
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| **HDRLabs sIBL archive** | Live `hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html` HTTP 404 (2026-08-29). Wayback 2023-01-01: “licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.” NC-SA. Use [poly-haven](../catalog/environment/poly-haven.md) / [open-hdri](../catalog/environment/open-hdri.md). |
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| **Truebones Mixamo 2400 dump** | Mixamo clip repack, not the ZOO SKU. Mixamo terms already live on [`catalog/animation/mixamo.md`](../catalog/animation/mixamo.md); a third-party dump does not create a new grant. The ZOO entry is a different product and stays `needs-review`. |
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| **FiveM “free props” dumps** | Anonymous GitHub trees, MLO leaks, escrow bypasses, and Tebex reuploads are stolen or unlicensed regardless of a CC0 badge. Do not use them. |
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| **Cfx Marketplace / forum Releases (as a blanket source)** | Per-resource terms. Cfx is not a commercial grant. Live Finding Resources (2026-08-25): “Use resources at your own risk.” Read each resource's own terms; the marketplace is not CC0. |
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| **HDRLabs sIBL archive** | Live `hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html` HTTP 404 (2026-08-29). Wayback 2023-01-01: “licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.” NC-SA. Use [Poly Haven](../catalog/environment/poly-haven.md) or [Open HDRI](../catalog/environment/open-hdri.md) instead. |
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| **Truebones Mixamo 2400 dump** | Mixamo clip repack, not the ZOO SKU. The [Mixamo](../catalog/animation/mixamo.md) entry has Adobe's terms; a third-party dump does not create a new grant. The [Truebones ZOO](../catalog/animation/truebones-zoo.md) entry is a different product. |
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| **Khronos glTF Sample Sponza** | `Models/Sponza/LICENSE.md`: model files under the **CryEngine Limited License Agreement**, not CC-BY. Metadata files are CC-BY-4.0. Do not treat the Khronos sample tree as a bulk CC0/CC-BY kit. |
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| **Sprout Lands (Cup Nooble) free itch tier** | Live itch: free pack is **non-commercial**; commercial needs paid premium. Not CC0. |
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| **Pixel Crawler (Anokolisa)** | Live itch page had no license text (“permanently free” only). Do not infer CC0 from a gist. |
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A source that is not on this list is not automatically safe. If you cannot read its terms at the source, treat it as unlicensed until you can.

‎site/config.json‎

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{ "id": "data", "title": "Use the data (JSON, CSV, feeds)", "path": "docs/data.md" },
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{ "id": "for-publishers", "title": "For publishers", "path": "docs/for-publishers.md" },
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{ "id": "provenance", "title": "Provenance", "path": "docs/provenance.md" },
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{ "id": "high-risk", "title": "High risk", "path": "docs/high-risk.md" },
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{ "id": "high-risk", "title": "Not safe to ship", "path": "docs/high-risk.md" },
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{ "id": "ai-assets", "title": "AI assets", "path": "docs/ai-assets.md" },
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{ "id": "game-vs-video", "title": "Games vs video licensing", "path": "docs/game-vs-video-licensing.md" },
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