Licenses

UnicornFork is built with free software and open data: the chess engine, what your browser gets from us besides our own code, and the data, each with its license. Each name links to the project, where its source is, and each license to its text.

The chess engine

Stockfish evaluates positions and checks the coach. Maia3 is the opponent you can play.

NameVersionLicense
Maia3unmodified standalone UCI opponent; source code, including its license, at this link
The license

Maia3 runs as a separate executable. Its 5M and 23M model cards refer to the upstream repository for licensing; checkpoints are pinned in runtime/maia3/checkpoints.json.

1.0 AGPL-3.0-only
Stockfishthe engine on our server: the player report, and Plus and Pro's analyses 18 GPL-3.0-or-later
Stockfish 19 lite (stockfish.js)the engine in your browser, without Plus or Pro 19.0.0 GPL-3.0-only

In your browser

The code, fonts, pieces and sounds your browser gets from us, besides our own.

NameVersionLicense
@fontsource-variable/frauncesthe Fraunces font 5.3.0 OFL-1.1
@fontsource-variable/interthe Inter font 5.3.0 OFL-1.1
cburnett piecesColin M.L. Burnett's chess pieces, from Wikimedia Commons
The license

UnicornFork's chess pieces (web/src/pieces/) are Colin M.L. Burnett's (Cburnett on Wikimedia Commons): his own last versions, uploaded on 3 January 2007, of File:Chess_klt45.svg, File:Chess_kdt45.svg and the other ten files (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chess_klt45.svg), unchanged but for their names. sprite.svg puts them together for the boards, their drawing only, its style attributes as presentation attributes (chessgpt/pieces.py). He offers them under the license of your choice of the GFDL, the BSD license and the GPL. UnicornFork uses them under the BSD license:

Copyright (c) Colin M.L. Burnett

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of Colin M.L. Burnett nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

This software is provided by Colin M.L. Burnett and contributors "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall Colin M.L. Burnett and contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

2007 BSD-3-Clause
chess.jschess rules in the browser 1.4.0 BSD-2-Clause
cm-chessboardthe board 8.15.4 MIT
dompurifycleans the coach's answers before they're shown 3.4.16 (MPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0)
Kenney's Interface Soundsthe board's sounds, by Kenney (kenney.nl) 1.0 CC0-1.0
markedformats the coach's answers 18.0.14 MIT

Data

Open data the site is made with.

NameVersionLicense
disposable-email-domainsthe email domains that can't sign up CC0-1.0
lichess.org chess-openingsthe openings' names CC0-1.0
lichess.org open databasethe games of the player report's benchmark (players rated like you) 2026-09 CC0-1.0
lichess.org puzzle databasethe puzzles CC0-1.0