IconFlow — brand family
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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Full text: ../licenses/CC-BY-4.0.txt · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This directory holds IconFlow's own product mark (Petal Haypile), its
linked tray source, its source-bound review receipt, and its built family.

WHY ATTRIBUTION-ONLY AND NOT NONCOMMERCIAL
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This material ships inside the `iconflow` package, because `iconflow demo`
has to carry a real reviewed family to prove the engine and the playbook is not
useful without its images. A noncommercial or no-derivatives term here would
make the whole distribution non-free — unpackageable by Linux distributions and
blocked by many corporate legal reviews — which would cost IconFlow the
adoption it is built for, in exchange for very little.

Very little, because copyright is the wrong instrument for the thing actually
being protected. What stops someone adopting Petal Haypile as their product's
identity is TRADEMARKS.md, and a trademark is not licensed by any Creative
Commons license. That protection is unchanged and is the one that matters.

The wider published corpus — the 137 Living Archive studies, the gallery, the
showcase, and the worked examples — stays CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0. None of it ships in
the package, and it is the material a "free icon pack" ripoff would target.

TO START YOUR OWN ICON, DO NOT COPY THESE
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Use `iconflow init` and `iconflow new <preset>`. The technique scaffolds in
../templates/presets/ are CC0 public domain and exist for exactly this purpose,
so whatever you design from them is unencumbered and yours.

THE REMIX LAB
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The Remix Lab at https://ai-iconflow.com/#remix bends these masters in the
browser and hands the visitor the SVG. That output stays under this same
CC BY 4.0 licence: derivatives and commercial use are allowed, attribution to
IconFlow is required. It is deliberately not a CC0 route — an unconditional
grant on output derived from the official mark would make a barely-modified
IconFlow logo free for anyone to adopt.

Anyone who wants a starting point with no conditions at all should use
`iconflow new`, whose scaffolds are CC0 public domain.

No copyright licence answers the trademark question. Adopting an unmodified
Petal Haypile, or a mark confusingly similar to it, as your product's identity
is governed by ../TRADEMARKS.md however the copyright is licensed.

See ../TRADEMARKS.md and ../LICENSES.md.
