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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, five per-league CC0-1.0 historical bases from openfootball/football.json, and current-season Football.TXT schedules from the five OpenFootball country repositories. Runtime refresh is restricted to those eight declared repository identities and exact allowlisted paths; every captured revision, license, byte hash, and field-level role remains visible in provenance.

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 app, docs, and third-party notices, and the pack remains facts-only: it is not combined with the CC0 match index or forecast training data. Required attribution: © 2022 Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D. Golavo’s modifications are limited to selecting, parsing, and summarizing the women’s 1991–2019 and men’s 1930–2022 tournament, standings, appearance, and award rows as separately labelled reference lanes.

Transfermarkt-derived and DataHub football datasets are rejected because a downstream CC0/PDDL label does not cure upstream ToS and database-provenance risk. The OpenLigaDB ODbL display overlay ships behind a separate consent and storage boundary; it never enters CC0 packs, training, forecasts, or exports.

Non-affiliation

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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.