Licenses
SkipDB is deliberately open on both sides — the software and the data — so the project can never be quietly turned proprietary.
AGPL-3.0
The application source code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Anyone who runs a modified version as a network service must make their source available — closing the SaaS loophole.
ODbL 1.0 + Service Provider Reciprocity
The database and API contents are licensed under the Open Database License 1.0. Use it with attribution and share alike — any derivative database must also be released under ODbL 1.0.
Additional term: if you operate a public app, API, or hosted service and use SkipDB data to seed, validate, or augment a private skip-segment database, you must make your corresponding skip-segment data publicly available under ODbL 1.0 or a compatible open license. Read-only API use to display skip times to end users is not affected.
Third-party metadata
This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB. Title names, posters, and episode metadata are sourced from The Movie Database. TMDB data is not included in the SkipDB data dump — only crowdsourced timestamps are exported.
Why two licenses?
Code and data are different things. AGPL keeps the software open even when run as a hosted service. ODbL is designed specifically for databases — it requires attribution and that any derivative database be shared under the same terms, preventing anyone from extracting the data and locking it away in a proprietary product. The public data dump makes that guarantee concrete.