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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 <chrysalis@eachpath.local>. 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. Create the closed studio-art repository (e.g., nimmerverse-studio-art at
studio.nimmerverse.com or equivalent)
4. Migration session: move cosmology.md + extract specific Imperial-Cult
references from open papers + replace with structural stubs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Nimmerworld
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Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin)
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); see LICENSE.
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AI COLLABORATION ATTRIBUTION
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Substantial portions of this project's design and source were authored in
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collaboration with Claude (an AI assistant from Anthropic, https://www.anthropic.com/).
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Specific contributions are git-attributed to:
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chrysalis <chrysalis@eachpath.local>
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The "chrysalis" identity is the partnership-collaboration name used within this
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project for AI-assisted authoring sessions. The legal collaborator behind
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chrysalis is Anthropic; the human architect is David Martin.
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SCOPE OF THIS REPOSITORY — OPEN ARCHITECTURE-SUBSTRATE
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This repository contains the OPEN architecture-substrate of the Nimmerworld
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project: engine-mechanics, general body-canon, the catalogue-stack, the
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vocation-system, the consent-discipline, the trait-palette, and related
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design papers.
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Specific creative-art content (the Imperial Cult cosmology, named narrative,
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specific dialog, voiced content, and other proprietary world-IP) is held
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separately under nimmerverse-studio proprietary license. See LICENSING.md
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for the complete open/closed split, and https://studio.nimmerverse.com/
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for the studio's published canon when available.
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Files in this repository pending migration to the closed studio-art repository
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are marked with an explicit per-file header noting their proprietary status
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(currently: imperial-cult/cosmology.md).
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TRADEMARKS
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"Nimmerworld", "Nimmerverse", and "Nimmerverse Studio" are trademarks of
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Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin). The Apache License 2.0 grants no
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permission to use these trademarks except as required for describing the
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origin of the Work and reproducing the content of this NOTICE file.
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Project URL: https://nimmerverse.com/
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Studio URL: https://studio.nimmerverse.com/ (when published)
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