dsh-plugin-boot-whale-maid — LICENSE
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TWO SEPARATE LICENCES, APPLIED TO TWO SEPARATE THINGS.
The software licence below covers the plug-in's CODE. It does NOT cover the
artwork, and it cannot: the artwork is third-party work that this package
merely references by URL. Read both sections before redistributing anything.


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1. SOFTWARE / CODE — MIT
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Applies to: every file in this package EXCEPT the artwork described in
section 2 — i.e. lib/index.js, lib/client.js, scripts/, the YAML and JSON
files, and this repository's Markdown. The artwork is not covered here, and
no file of the upstream artworks package is redistributed inside this
package.

Copyright (c) 2026 dsh-plugin-boot-whale-maid contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Note on scope: the choice above covers only the code written for this
plug-in. It is the same layering the source artwork package uses, where its
own code is MIT while its art is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — the code licence never
reaches across into the artwork in either package.


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2. ARTWORK — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (NOT covered by the MIT licence above)
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The boot animation displays six WebP images whose copyright belongs to their
respective authors, NOT to this package. They are licensed
**Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International** (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

  上善 → ZipZipPipe → Small-tailqwq

  1. 上善 — 一创 (initial creation): the original whale-girl character design.
     https://www.pixiv.net/users/62155430

  2. ZipZipPipe — 二创 (secondary creation): the maid whale-girl redesign that
     adds the DeepSeek elements, built on 上善's whale-girl.
     https://www.pixiv.net/users/18604994

  3. Small-tailqwq — 三创 (tertiary creation): the DeepSeek-element redesign
     the source skin actually ships (dsh-external/dsh-deep-whale).

Full attribution text, the verbatim upstream NOTICE and LICENSE-ARTWORK
excerpts, the three licence elements and their concrete obligations are in
**docs/ATTRIBUTION.md** in this package. That file is authoritative for the
artwork; this section only states the licence name and the credit chain.

How this package uses the artwork — and what that does NOT mean:

  * The images are loaded at RUNTIME from the same-origin route
    `/skin-assets/maid-atelier/<hash>.webp`, which the maid-atelier skin
    plug-in registers on the host. This package does not copy, inline,
    re-host or redistribute any artwork file or byte. The data: URIs used by
    the standalone `scripts/preview.html` motion preview are synthetic
    placeholder shapes drawn for this package, not the artwork.
  * Referencing the artwork by URL does NOT waive, satisfy or exempt any
    obligation under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Attribution (BY), NonCommercial (NC)
    and ShareAlike (SA) all still apply in full to how this package displays
    and uses it. Providing a URI/hyperlink to the material is a way to
    *meet* the attribution requirement, never a reason to be *free* of it.
  * NC: this package and its distribution must not be used for commercial
    advantage or monetary compensation without separate permission from the
    rightsholders.
  * SA: if you redistribute the artwork or anything derived from it — e.g. by
    inlining it, recolouring it, redrawing it or shipping an offline copy —
    that redistributed part must be licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or a
    BY-NC-SA compatible licence, with the licence text or a link included.
  * This package did not modify the artwork (only proportional cover/contain
    fitting and positioning, no recolouring, no cropping of faces, no
    stretching), so it is a user of the artwork, not its licensor, and it
    claims no copyright over it and grants no sublicence to it.
  * The artwork route exists only while the maid-atelier skin plug-in is
    installed and enabled; when it is absent the route answers 404 and the
    animation degrades to a CSS/SVG curtain. That runtime dependency changes
    none of the obligations above.

If your use case is commercial, or involves redistributing the artwork at
scale, obtain permission from the rightsholders listed above. Nothing in this
file is legal advice.