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Copyright & DMCA
Last updated 15 September 2026
Our curriculum is ours, and it is free for anyone to learn from and any teacher to teach from, permanently and without asking. Your projects are yours entirely: we claim no licence over your work, and your code never reaches our servers. The software the lessons run on stays under its own open-source licences.
Sankofa Code Content
The curriculum is ours: lesson text, explanations, worked examples, exercises and the tests behind them, practice tests, the final exam, project and capstone briefs, reference guides, and the Sankofa Code name, logo and visual identity. Copyright is held by Sankofa Code.
Use it to learn, without asking. Use it to teach, without asking. Read it, work through it, print the reference guides for students without reliable devices, project a lesson onto a classroom wall, build a syllabus around it, or run an after-school programme from it. No permission, no licence fee, no agreement to sign, ever.
What we ask you not to do is republish the curriculum as your own work, sell access to it, or strip the attribution and present it as somebody else's. It is free because it should be free, which is not the same as unowned.
The Sankofa symbol belongs to the Akan people and to no company. Our particular drawing of it is ours; the symbol, its name and its meaning are not, and should not be. The About page explains where it comes from and why it was chosen.
If you want to do something with the material that does not obviously fit the above, write and ask. The answer is usually yes.
User Content
You build it. You own it. Every project, exercise and line of code you write here is yours. We claim no copyright, no licence, and no interest of any kind in it.
We do not ask for a licence as a condition of using the site. That clause, the one granting the platform a worldwide right to use whatever you upload, is standard almost everywhere and is deliberately absent here.
It is also unnecessary. Your code runs entirely in your own browser and is never transmitted to us or stored on our servers, so there is nothing on our side to have rights over in the first place.
Publish your work, sell it, open source it under any licence you like, put it in a portfolio, or delete it. You need no permission from us and owe us no credit.
If you send us something directly, such as a correction, a bug report or a translation, you are giving us permission to use it to improve the platform. You keep the copyright.
Third-Party Content
The lessons run on open-source software, delivered to your browser when a lesson needs it. Each piece stays under its own licence, and nothing in our terms limits the rights those licences give you.
- Python, as a WebAssembly build, so Python runs in your browser without installing anything.
- The TypeScript compiler, which is what actually type-checks your answers.
- React and Babel, for the component lessons and their live previews.
- SQLite, compiled for the browser, so your queries run against a real database engine.
- The Monaco code editor, the editor component used throughout the lessons.
Fonts and icons used in the interface are licensed for this use. Where a lesson uses a public dataset, the lesson names the source and the terms it is published under.
If you believe something here is used outside its licence, tell us. That is a mistake we would want to fix rather than argue about.
Copyright Complaints
If you own copyright in something and believe it is being used on this site without permission, write to us and we will look at it properly. Most of these turn out to be an error on our side, and the fastest path is usually an email rather than a formal notice.
To send a formal notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, include all of the following, which is what the statute requires:
- Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them.
- Identification of the work you say is infringed.
- Identification of the material on this site you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it, such as the page address.
- Your contact details: address, telephone number and email.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorised to act for the owner.
Send it to hello@sankofacode.org with “DMCA” in the subject line. We acknowledge notices promptly and act on valid ones.
If material of yours was removed and you believe that was wrong, you can send a counter-notice with your signature, identification of what was removed and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, your contact details, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district.
Please do not send notices in bad faith. The DMCA makes a person who knowingly misrepresents infringement liable for damages, and a curriculum built for underfunded communities is a poor target for it.
Questions about this policy go to hello@sankofacode.org. Every message gets a personal reply.
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