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Legal & brand use

Software license

Section titled “Software license”
  • Golavo’s code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Data packs are separate works and state their own license in each manifest.

Data licenses

Section titled “Data licenses”

Golavo vendors one pinned CC0-1.0 pack from martj42/international_results and five per-league CC0-1.0 packs from openfootball/football.json (English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 — historical completed seasons only, from one pinned upstream commit).

The Fjelstul World Cup Database is vendored separately under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Its README and DESCRIPTION license evidence ship with the pack, attribution appears in the docs and third-party notices, and the pack remains facts-only: it is not combined with the CC0 match index or forecast training data. Modifications are limited to selecting and parsing the men’s 1930–2022 history.

Transfermarkt-derived and DataHub football datasets are rejected because a downstream CC0/PDDL label does not cure upstream ToS and database-provenance risk. Other sources and license-isolated overlays are planned (ADR-0001), not shipped.

Non-affiliation

Section titled “Non-affiliation”

Golavo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FIFA, UEFA, any confederation, league, club, or competition organizer. Competition names (e.g. “Premier League,” “FIFA World Cup”) are used factually and nominatively to identify matches, not to imply any association.

How Golavo celebrates football history — legally

Section titled “How Golavo celebrates football history — legally”

Golavo may celebrate great eras and players through factual editorial copy drawn from public-domain data and original abstract art. It does not use:

  • player likenesses, photographs, names as endorsements, or signatures;
  • club crests, kit designs, or colors as trademarks;
  • league or competition logos, emblems, mascots, slogans, or trophy imagery;
  • FIFA/UEFA official marks of any kind.

Where great matches are referenced, they are stated as facts (“Hungary 6, England 3 — Wembley, 1953”) with original artwork, never with protected imagery. This reflects a deliberate, conservative reading of brand-protection and trademark law; nominative use of a competition’s name is not a concession by any rights holder.