Pounce Atlas publishes licence breakdown for its open-source map demo data

Pounce Atlas, an open-source explorer for geographic datasets, has published a guide separating the licences that apply to its demo materials. The application code and documentation are under the MIT licence, while invented business and venue attributes in the demo files are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Place names and approximate centre coordinates are sourced from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0, which requires attribution, and boundary geometry for South Africa is derived from Natural Earth public-domain data. The post also lists licences for third-party components such as the Inter font, Three.js, and several build and testing tools, and notes that the MIT licence does not cover third-party assets or trademarks. The guide is informational rather than legal advice, and its drafting was partly assisted by AI.