catalog: three active entries carry `commercial: false` against the headline promise, and two of them have Evidence that does not establish the value
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- content, documentation
Research direction
Start by reviewing CONTRIBUTING and the cited catalog entries: catalog/3d/freepbr.md, catalog/2d/penzilla.md, and catalog/tools/gaea.md. Then inspect the validator and the site search and entry page to understand how catalog status and commercial terms are represented. Decide and document the policy for non-commercial entries, resolve the cited evidence and data defects, and add the proposed validation rule; done means the policy is documented and the listed defects and unsupported values are addressed.
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Description
Why it matters
The repo description and README promise "free, commercially usable" sources. Three active entries say the opposite, and on the site they are only distinguished by a small "non-commercial" flag among the search results. For two of them the Evidence section does not support the recorded value, which is exactly the situation needs-review exists for.
Evidence (at 69387df)
| entry | commercial | what the Evidence says |
|---|---|---|
catalog/3d/freepbr.md |
false | consistent: "As long as you don't use these commercially" (2026-08-24) |
catalog/2d/penzilla.md |
false, attribution_required true | contradictory: pack pages say "Royalty free and commercial use" (2026-08-24); the licence PDF quoted on 2026-10-04 is a purchase licence; which applies to the free packs is not resolved |
catalog/tools/gaea.md |
false | the entry itself says "Prior commercial: false in this catalog was not re-established from a live quote on 2026-08-24" |
Small data defects seen in the same pass, worth fixing together:
catalog/animation/blender-ellie-poses.mdandcatalog/characters/blender-human-base-meshes.mdshare the sameurl(the blender.org demo-files page); every other URL in the catalog is unique.catalog/animation/cmu-mocap.mdandcatalog/characters/makehuman.mdusehttp://URLs.catalog/audio/mixkit-sfx.mdhasverified: 2026-09-23while its newest Evidence line is dated 2026-09-24 (the check only rejects the opposite direction).- Eight
activeentries have an Evidence section under 80 characters (3d/3dmodelscc0-*x3,3d/the-base-mesh.md,audio/kenney-interface-sounds.md,audio/kenney-sci-fi-sounds.md,animation/cmu-mocap.md,tools/google-draco.md).
Suggested approach
Decide the policy once: either commercial: false entries are out of scope (deprecate FreePBR with a pointer to its paid tier, or keep it only as a "free tier is non-commercial" note on the README scope table), or they stay and the site shows a prominent "Not for commercial use" banner on the entry page and excludes them from the default search. Set Penzilla and Gaea to needs-review until a dated quote settles the value. Fix the small defects. Add a validator rule: status: active with commercial: false requires an Evidence line quoting the restriction.
Done when
No active entry has a commercial value its Evidence does not quote; the policy for non-commercial free tiers is written in CONTRIBUTING; the duplicate URL, the two http:// URLs and the mixkit date are fixed.
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