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Bleaticon uses the data and fonts below, each under its own licence. Last checked 10 Nov 2026.

Sources and licences

Source Used for Licence What the licence requires
GeoNames, via datasets/world-cities City answers (many countries, US states and Canadian provinces) CC BY 4.0 Credit GeoNames, link the licence, say the data was changed
Countries States Cities Database (dr5hn) Province, region and département answers (Italy, Spain, France, Turkey) ODbL 1.0 Credit; keep the notice; share any published derived list under ODbL; credit the official registers it draws on
prust/wikipedia-movie-data, scraped from Wikipedia Film titles and years (1990s, 2000s) MIT (repository); underlying data from Wikipedia Keep the MIT notice; credit Wikipedia
GitHub Linguist Programming-language names MIT Keep the MIT notice
datasets/s-and-p-500-companies, from Wikipedia Company names for the "large US public company" question ODC PDDL 1.0 (public domain dedication) Nothing required. Company names are trademarks of their owners (see section 6)
Wikipedia tables (Grammy, Oscar and SNL lists) Grammy artists with 5+ wins, Oscar-winning actors, SNL hosts (2005 onward) CC BY-SA 4.0 Credit Wikipedia, link the licence, say the data was changed; adapted lists are shared under the same licence (worth a lawyer glance)
The Beatles Bible (beatlesbible.com) Beatles song titles Facts and titles, no licence offered Credit; list compiled by hand and filtered to songs the Beatles recorded
utdata/rwd-billboard-data (GitHub) Artists who reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 MIT (code); underlying chart data belongs to Billboard Keep the MIT notice (Copyright (c) 2019 UT Data); only the fact of who topped the chart is used
hhllcks/snldb (GitHub), scraped from snlarchives.net SNL hosts through April 2021 No licence file in the repository Credit; only names of hosts are used; cross-check against Wikipedia before commercial use
Corpora (Darius Kazemi) Birds, fruits, vegetables CC0 Nothing required
Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com) Rivers, lakes, islands and mountain ranges Public domain Nothing required; credited as a courtesy
WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University) Animals, food and things (hat, toy, ship, furniture) Princeton WordNet licence The full notice in section 3 must appear with the data and with modifications; do not use Princeton's name in advertising
Press Start 2P and VT323 fonts All on-screen text SIL Open Font Licence 1.1 Commercial use allowed. If you host the font files yourself, include the OFL text and the copyright lines in section 4
Sounds, music, pixel art, scenery Everything else Generated by the game's own code No third-party material

Credit lines

City names: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0, via datasets/world-cities, filtered and reformatted for this game. Regions: Countries States Cities Database (github.com/dr5hn/countries-states-cities-database), ODbL v1.0. It draws on official registers including INSEE (France), ISTAT (Italy) and IGN/CNIG (Spain). Film titles and the movies with a star: Wikipedia, via prust/wikipedia-movie-data (MIT), titles and cast lists; each star's list was checked against public filmography listings. Programming languages: GitHub Linguist (MIT). Companies: datasets/s-and-p-500-companies (public domain), from Wikipedia. Birds, fruits and vegetables: Corpora by Darius Kazemi (CC0). Animals, food and things: WordNet 3.0, Princeton University. Rivers, lakes, islands and mountain ranges: Natural Earth (public domain). Beatles songs: The Beatles Bible (beatlesbible.com). Grammy, Oscar and SNL host lists: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, compiled and reformatted for this game. Hot 100 #1 artists: chart data via utdata/rwd-billboard-data (MIT, Copyright (c) 2019 UT Data). SNL hosts through 2021: hhllcks/snldb, from snlarchives.net. Hand-compiled lists: cereals, restaurant chains, retailers, universities, TV shows, dinosaurs, chemical elements, sports, music, geography and food lists were compiled by hand from public knowledge and checked where noted. Fonts: Press Start 2P and VT323, SIL Open Font Licence 1.1. All names, titles and marks belong to their owners. Bleaticon is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

WordNet 3.0 licence

WordNet Release 3.0

This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by
Princeton University under the following license.  By obtaining, using
and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you have
read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions.:

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
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the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer,
and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and
documentation, including modifications that you make for internal
use or for distribution.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.  All rights reserved.

THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED.  BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON
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ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE
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INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR
OTHER RIGHTS.

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advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
and/or database.  Title to copyright in this software, database and
any associated documentation shall at all times remain with
Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.

Font notices

MIT notices

Copyright (c) 2016 Peter Rust            (wikipedia-movie-data)
Copyright (c) 2017 GitHub, Inc.          (linguist)

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