License: The Resonance Cosmos
Plain-Language Summary
The setting material in The Resonance Cosmos is intended to be freely usable, expandable, and shareable.
Unless a document says otherwise, the worldbuilding text, setting concepts, lore documents, registries, timelines, place descriptions, species descriptions, civilization descriptions, and related setting documentation in this repository are licensed under:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Short form: CC BY-SA 4.0.
This plain-language page is here so readers do not have to start with legal text. The formal license terms are controlled by the official Creative Commons license linked above.
What You May Do
You may use this setting free of charge.
You may copy, share, adapt, remix, expand, translate, publish, play with, and build on the setting material, including for commercial projects, as long as you follow the license terms.
This means you may use The Resonance Cosmos for things such as:
- tabletop campaigns
- fiction
- games
- reference wikis
- adaptations
- translations
- new regions, species, histories, characters, rules, or stories
What You Must Do
If you use or share material from this setting, you must give attribution.
A recommended attribution is:
Based on The Resonance Cosmos by Jan Oetjen, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When practical, also include a link to the project repository and to the license:
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Project:
The Resonance Cosmos - License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
If you modify, adapt, or extend the setting and share your version, you must make clear that changes were made.
If you share an adapted version, your contribution must be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible ShareAlike license, so other people can use and build on it under the same open terms.
How Additions Flow Back
The goal of this project is that useful additions to the setting can flow back into the shared documents and become available to everyone.
The CC BY-SA 4.0 license requires shared adaptations to remain open under the same license, but it does not automatically force every private or external addition to be submitted to this repository.
For this project, the contribution policy is:
- Additions accepted into the official project documents are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- A contribution submitted for inclusion in this repository is treated as permission to include, edit, maintain, and redistribute that contribution under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Only material accepted into this repository counts as official project canon.
- External adaptations may exist, but they should not present themselves as official canon unless they have been accepted here.
This keeps the setting open while preserving one clear canonical source.
What The License Does Not Mean
The license does not mean every external idea automatically becomes official canon.
The license does not mean the original creator endorses every adaptation.
The license does not remove the need to respect third-party rights for material that is not part of this project.
The license does not apply to material explicitly marked with a different license or rights notice.
Formal License
The setting material covered by this notice is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Local copy of the license text:
Human-readable license summary:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Legal code:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode