Do not catalog / high risk
Sources that fail our commercial-safety bar. Keep out of status: active listings; link here only as warnings.
| Source | Why |
|---|---|
| SMPL / SMPL-X (free academic license) | Free download is non-commercial scientific/education/artistic only; commercial use needs a paid Meshcapade / MPI license. |
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). |
| Shadertoy (default) | Default CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless an author states otherwise. Do not port into commercial builds without explicit permission. |
| 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. |
| Bandai Namco mocap datasets | CC-BY-NC — research/non-commercial only. |
| Ubisoft LaFAN1 / La Forge Animation Dataset | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 — non-commercial, no derivatives; unusable for shipping games. |
| SFU Motion Capture Database | Explicitly free for research only — “cannot be used for commercial products or resale.” |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ElevenLabs / similar free TTS tiers | Free tiers often non-commercial; commercial rights sit behind paid plans. Prefer local Apache/MIT TTS (Kokoro, Piper Plus). |
| Google Maps / Earth meshes | Scraping via RenderDoc/plugins violates ToS — not public domain. |
| ColorADD symbols | Proprietary accessibility coding system; needs a paid license. |
| CC-*-ND music | Interactive sync is treated as a derivative — ND music is generally unusable in games. |
| Anonymous “CC0” mega-dumps | License-laundering risk — see provenance.md. |
| FABDEM | Research flags CC BY-NC-SA / non-commercial DEM — do not treat as commercial-ok terrain. |
| Yamms (Godot) | AGPLv3 addon — viral copyleft risk for commercial closed-source games. |
| Meshy AI free tier | Ownership / training-data restrictions on free outputs — high uncertainty. |
| Cascadeur Free | Research: non-commercial / proprietary .casc export limits — paid tiers differ. |
| Unreal Starter Content | Engine EULA — UE-only; do not port meshes/textures to other engines. |
| Unity Companion License / Starter Assets | Unity-only embedding in shipped Unity games; no raw-file redistribution; extra seats for outside contractors. Not a multi-engine CC0 kit. |
| Fab “Epic Content License” | Engine-locked to Unreal. Only Fab Standard License claims may be multi-engine — verify badge per asset. |
| LPC / CC-BY-SA sprites | Commercial OK with SA obligations on asset derivatives; keep sheets extractable; not “CC0-like.” |
| Font Awesome brand icons | Brand marks only for representing those brands — not generic UI decoration. |
| 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 “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. |
| 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. |
| 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 / Open HDRI. |
| Truebones Mixamo 2400 dump | Mixamo clip repack, not the ZOO SKU. Mixamo terms already live on 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. |
| 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. |
| Sprout Lands (Cup Nooble) free itch tier | Live itch: free pack is non-commercial; commercial needs paid premium. Not CC0. |
| Pixel Crawler (Anokolisa) | Live itch page had no license text (“permanently free” only). Do not infer CC0 from a gist. |
When in doubt: status: needs-review or omit entirely.