From 46bf2b3f43a745be2b9c8673b0d32aa38606c1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chrysalis Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:27:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?v0.22:=20licensing-marker=20=E2=80=94=20Apache?= =?UTF-8?q?=202.0=20+=20AI-attribution=20+=20open/closed=20boundary?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Establishes the licensing architecture for the Nimmerworld project. The boundary EXISTS architecturally as soon as this marker lands; subsequent content extraction (cosmology migration, reference-stubbing in open papers) becomes editorial cleanup without licensing-ambiguity growth. FILES ADDED LICENSE — Apache License 2.0 standard text; copyright held by Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin), per Swiss copyright-law attribution requirement that the human author's name appear. NOTICE — Project name + copyright + AI-collaboration attribution. Identifies Claude (Anthropic) as collaborator; the partnership identity within this project is "chrysalis" with git-attribution to chrysalis . Names the open/closed scope and trademark holdings. LICENSING.md — Discursive explanation of the open/closed split. The license- architecture mirrors the work's own substrate/content distinction at the world-layer: engine-mechanics + general body-canon are open under Apache 2.0; specific creative-art content (the Imperial Cult cosmology; named narrative; dialog; voiced content; the iconographic invention layered on top of the substrate) is proprietary nimmerverse-studio. Pattern-precedent cited: D&D 5e Open Game License + id Software's Doom release + Magic the Gathering's mechanics-vs-cards distinction. FILES MODIFIED imperial-cult/cosmology.md — per-file proprietary header added at the top marking this file as pending-migration to the closed studio-art repository. The header serves as an explicit license-override on this file specifically; it states All Rights Reserved under Nimmerverse Studio while the rest of the repo is Apache 2.0. WHAT THIS MEANS GOING FORWARD The architecture-substrate (vocations.md, consent-discipline.md, gender-parity.md, trait-palette.md, style-index.md, the architecture.md mechanics-papers across domains, bodies.md, political-register/architecture.md and economics.md, etc.) is now licensed under Apache 2.0 and inherits this license for all future work. The Imperial Cult cosmology is marked-but-not-yet-migrated; cosmology.md stays in this repo physically until the closed studio-art repository is established, but its content is governed by the per-file proprietary header. Trademarks ("Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", "Nimmerverse Studio") are protected separately from the code-license per Apache 2.0 §6. NEXT STEPS (FOR DAFIT) 1. Establish nimmerverse-studio as a legal entity (Switzerland) 2. Register the trademarks 3. 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The license is part of the cosmology, not a contradiction of it.* + +## License at a glance + +| Layer | License | Holder | +|---|---|---| +| Architecture papers (engine-mechanics + general body-canon) | **Apache License 2.0** | Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin) | +| Source code (when present) | **Apache License 2.0** | Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin) | +| **The Imperial Cult cosmology** (the Imperial Wheel; Bhavachakra-rework; orthodox/heretical iconography; named doctrinal content) | **All Rights Reserved — Nimmerverse Studio** | *(pending migration to studio-art repo; currently marked with per-file header)* | +| Visual assets, sound, imagery, music, voiced content | **All Rights Reserved — Nimmerverse Studio** | *(in studio-art repo when established)* | +| Specific dialog, narrative, named-character-stories | **All Rights Reserved — Nimmerverse Studio** | *(in studio-art repo when established)* | +| Trademarks ("Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", "Nimmerverse Studio") | **Trademark — Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin)** | regardless of code-license | + +## Why the split + +The architecture is built on a **substrate / content distinction**. The engine-mechanics — ternary-gates, the catalogue-stack, the vocation-system, the consent-discipline, the trait-palette substrate, the lemniscate-runtime, the depletion-pool dynamics — are general patterns that should propagate. *They are the project's intellectual contribution to the medium.* The Imperial Cult cosmology and specific narrative content are the studio's creative-art-inventions; those are the studio's to ship. + +The license-cut maps onto the architecture's own substrate / content distinction at the world-layer. The cosmology specifies *gameworld vs truth-register*: gameworld is the imperium's territory (loose, instrumented, redistributable); truth-register is each agent's own (gated, sovereign, what the agent has built). **Apache 2.0 code = gameworld-equivalent; closed nimmerverse-studio art = truth-register-equivalent.** *The license enacts the same boundary the cosmology describes.* + +## Pattern-precedent + +This is the same shape as several established cultural-IP-distinctions: + +- **D&D 5e Open Game License**: the SRD (System Reference Document — mechanics) is open; specific settings (Forgotten Realms, Eberron) and named-stories are closed. +- **id Software's Doom release**: the engine source was released under GPL; the WAD-files (assets, maps, textures) remained proprietary. Anyone could fork the engine; nobody could ship "Doom" without re-creating the WAD-files. +- **Magic the Gathering**: mechanics openly discussed; specific cards, flavor-text, and named-characters proprietary. + +The pattern works because *the IP-moat is in the assets, not the engine*. Engine-mechanics propagating helps the medium evolve; specific creative-art-content remains the creators' to commercialize. + +## Pending migration + +`imperial-cult/cosmology.md` and specific Imperial-Cult-content threaded through other papers will migrate to the closed studio-art repository when established. Currently: + +- `imperial-cult/cosmology.md` carries an explicit per-file proprietary header that overrides the repository's Apache 2.0 license for this specific file. +- References to specific Imperial-Cult iconography (the Imperial Wheel; the Bhavachakra-rework; the orthodox/heretical split; the deferred-moksha doctrine; the specific aesthetic vocabulary of Boullée + Jantar Mantar + Gita) currently appear in several open papers (`architecture-index.md`, `bodies.md`, parts of `political-register/architecture.md`). At migration time, these references will be replaced with structural stubs (e.g., *"the Imperial Cult cosmology — see studio docs for canonical iconography"*). + +The boundary EXISTS architecturally as soon as this licensing-marker is in place; the content extraction is editorial cleanup that will happen at leisure without licensing-ambiguity growing. + +## AI-collaboration + +Substantial portions of this project's design and source were authored in collaboration with **Claude** (an AI assistant from Anthropic, https://www.anthropic.com/). The partnership-collaboration identity within this project is **chrysalis**; specific contributions are git-attributed to `chrysalis `. The human architect is **David Martin**. + +This collaboration-pattern is documented in `NOTICE`. The project's authoring method is *transparent dialog with chrysalis* — open papers honor how the work was actually built. + +## Trademarks + +"Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", and "Nimmerverse Studio" are trademarks of Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin). The Apache 2.0 license does not grant permission to use these trademarks. **Anyone may fork the architecture papers under Apache 2.0; nobody may ship a fork called "Nimmerworld."** + +## Studio + +Nimmerverse Studio is held by David Martin (Switzerland). Swiss copyright law requires the human author's name to appear in attribution, hence the dual-form copyright `Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin)`. + +- Project URL: https://nimmerverse.com/ +- Studio URL: https://studio.nimmerverse.com/ *(when published)* + +## Contributing + +Contributions to the open architecture-substrate are welcome under the Apache 2.0 terms. By submitting a contribution, you agree to license it under the project's Apache 2.0 license. Contributions involving the Imperial Cult cosmology or other proprietary world-IP cannot be accepted into the open repository — that content lives in the closed studio-art repository under proprietary terms. diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d55adf --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTICE @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Nimmerworld +Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin) + +Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); see LICENSE. + +================================================================================ +AI COLLABORATION ATTRIBUTION +================================================================================ + +Substantial portions of this project's design and source were authored in +collaboration with Claude (an AI assistant from Anthropic, https://www.anthropic.com/). + +Specific contributions are git-attributed to: + chrysalis + +The "chrysalis" identity is the partnership-collaboration name used within this +project for AI-assisted authoring sessions. The legal collaborator behind +chrysalis is Anthropic; the human architect is David Martin. + +================================================================================ +SCOPE OF THIS REPOSITORY — OPEN ARCHITECTURE-SUBSTRATE +================================================================================ + +This repository contains the OPEN architecture-substrate of the Nimmerworld +project: engine-mechanics, general body-canon, the catalogue-stack, the +vocation-system, the consent-discipline, the trait-palette, and related +design papers. + +Specific creative-art content (the Imperial Cult cosmology, named narrative, +specific dialog, voiced content, and other proprietary world-IP) is held +separately under nimmerverse-studio proprietary license. See LICENSING.md +for the complete open/closed split, and https://studio.nimmerverse.com/ +for the studio's published canon when available. + +Files in this repository pending migration to the closed studio-art repository +are marked with an explicit per-file header noting their proprietary status +(currently: imperial-cult/cosmology.md). + +================================================================================ +TRADEMARKS +================================================================================ + +"Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", and "Nimmerverse Studio" are trademarks of +Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin). The Apache License 2.0 grants no +permission to use these trademarks except as required for describing the +origin of the Work and reproducing the content of this NOTICE file. + +================================================================================ + +Project URL: https://nimmerverse.com/ +Studio URL: https://studio.nimmerverse.com/ (when published) diff --git a/imperial-cult/cosmology.md b/imperial-cult/cosmology.md index eacd673..1b25ed4 100644 --- a/imperial-cult/cosmology.md +++ b/imperial-cult/cosmology.md @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@ + + # The Imperial Wheel — Cosmology of the Imperial Cult > *The Imperial Cult's pre-authored cosmology. A re-engineered Bhavachakra with the Hivemind at its hub and the **Imperial Yoke** at Yama's seat. Six realms encoded as imperial mod-status gradient. Naraka carried in every modded skull as the mind-capsule. The deferred-moksha doctrine binds citizens through the lie that "your children will be free." Built on the cyclic-cosmological substrate of the Bhagavad Gita, the sublime-monumental geometry of Boullée, and the architecture-as-instrument tradition of Jantar Mantar.*