Why we ship every icon and kit under CC0

This article was written with AI assistance (an AI coding agent) and reviewed
against the project's own test suite. Disclosed per DEV's guidelines; see the

ABotWroteThis tag.

The licensing question nobody asks until launch day

When you sell a digital asset, the license is the product. A buyer who cannot
tell whether they may use your icons in a commercial app, whether they must
credit you, or whether the license survives a resale of their own product, will
not buy - or will buy once and never come back. We decided early that every
asset we ship would be CC0 (public domain dedication) unless there was a
specific reason not to, and that the reason would be stated on the product
page.

What CC0 actually buys us

  • No friction at purchase. The buyer does not have to read a license agreement, track attribution, or ask permission. The asset is theirs.
  • No support burden from licensing. We never get "can I use this in a SaaS?" emails, because the answer is always yes.
  • Honest marketing. "CC0, use anywhere" is a true, checkable claim, not a marketing adjective. It is the one line in our listings that we never have to soften.

What it costs us

  • No recurring license revenue. A per-seat or per-project license would earn more per buyer over time. We gave that up deliberately.
  • No exclusivity. Anyone can redistribute the files. We accept that; the value is in the curation, the consistency, and the packaging, not in withholding the bits.
  • We cannot upsell "commercial use". Because commercial use is already included, there is no higher tier to sell. The revenue model is volume and bundles, not license ladders.

How we keep the promise checkable

Each product page states the license in plain language and links to the
full text. The asset files themselves carry the license in a LICENSE.txt
inside the zip, so a buyer who forwards the files still has the terms. The
Everything Bundle lists every component license explicitly rather than
hiding behind a single umbrella claim.

The catalog

All of these are CC0 or permissive, and all are available now:

  • Modu Stroke Icon Set - 12 SVG icons, CC0
  • AEFRI Interface Kit - 22 components, dark + light, CC0
  • Interface Essentials - 16 stroke SVG icons, CC0
  • Interface Motion - 16 animated stroke icons (GIF + MP4)
  • Interface Motion Sample - 3 animated stroke icons (free, CC0)
  • Freelance & Listing Prompt Pack - 4 working templates
  • Freelance Contract & Invoice Kit - 6 fillable documents
  • The Zero-Budget Creator Playbook - start earning without spending
  • Focus Deck - offline focus timer and task list, one HTML file
  • Invoice Writer - offline invoice generator, one HTML file
  • Kit Filler - fill contract templates in the browser
  • AEFRI Everything Bundle - all products, one download

Full catalogue and previews: https://aefristore.web.app

Where it lives

Catalogue and previews: https://aefristore.web.app
Ko-fi shop: https://ko-fi.com/aefrinet
itch.io: https://aefri.itch.io/interface-essentials-svg-icons

If you are building a similar storefront, decide the license before you
decide the price. The license is the harder decision, and it is the one
buyers actually check.