Avarthrel Licence

Introduction and rationale

As is apparent on the story pages, the stories are licensed under Creative Commons licences, usually the No Derivative Works variants of the licences. However, as an author and an originator of the world, I feel that this licence is a bit too much of an all-or-nothing deal. So, a clarification is in order: The stories are under the Creative Commons licences, but the world is an open world where everyone is free to add their own creations – under certain minimal terms of courtesy and to ensure the world stays open for everyone’s fun and enjoyment. Hence, the following licence applies to the world as a whole.

The Avarthrel Licence, v1.0

Avarthrel is an open fictional world. Everyone is hereby permitted to create anything they want based on the world, and distribute them how they please, as long as they permit characters, locations, concepts, and other such creations to be used by everyone else under these same terms. In other words, you are permitted to control the use and distribution of your stories, but not the concepts contained therein. Please distribute these terms along with your creations. —Urpo Lankinen, January 24th, 2009