← The Lost Realms
Draft — not in force
This page collects the terms that already exist and are settled in the project's
licences, and marks plainly the clauses that a lawyer still has to write. It is not yet an agreement,
nothing here asks you to accept anything, and no acceptance is recorded anywhere.
Its version id ends in -draft deliberately: the acceptance flow described in
D-12 is
built to refuse a draft id, so that wiring it up early cannot quietly gather agreements to a document
nobody qualified has read.
Who licenses this to you
Brave You Worlds, LLC, a limited liability company organised under the laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, United States. Contact: licensing@braveyouworlds.com.
Two different licences, and which covers what
The Lost Realms is not licensed as one thing, and the split is deliberate rather than an accident of
packaging:
- The engine — the software — is source-available under the Business Source License
1.1. Four years after each version ships, that version converts to the GNU General Public License.
That promise is real and dated, not a hedge.
LICENSE.
- The art, the worlds, the story and the books are proprietary Game Content. They
have no Change Date and never convert. Free to read, quote and build against; selling them,
redistributing them, or using them in anything you take revenue from needs a separate licence.
LICENSE-CONTENT.
So a version of the engine becoming open source does not hand anyone the realms, the books or the
marks — and nothing on this page should be read as saying otherwise in either direction.
Four things a generic game licence would get wrong
These are in force today, in LICENSE-CONTENT, and they are here because this is a game
driven by a language model:
- Your own worlds are yours (§4.1). Worlds, quests, characters and prose you
author belong to you. Nothing is claimed by virtue of the tools you used to make it.
- We claim no ownership of what the model writes (§4.2). The Game Master
narrates by calling a third-party provider while you play. We claim nothing that comes back and make no
representation about who does — that sits between you and your provider.
- No training on the content — and playing is not training (§3.5). Sending your
prompts and world data to a provider so it can narrate a turn is expressly permitted. Without that
second half the clause would forbid playing the game.
- Streaming and let's-plays are fine (§2.5), monetised channels included.
What you should know before you play
- The Game Master is a large language model. Its output varies between runs, can be
wrong, and can be unsuitable — it is generated at play time in response to what you type, not written
in advance and reviewed.
- Your turns go to a model provider. Whichever provider you configure, or the one
configured by whoever runs the server you play on, receives what you type and handles it under its own
terms. See the Privacy Notice.
- Part of the artwork is machine-generated, and whether such work is copyrightable at
all is unsettled in some jurisdictions. This is disclosed rather than glossed.
- You may need your own API key, and any cost of using a provider is between you and
that provider.
Governing law
Virginia, United States, with venue in Prince William County — the same law and forum named in the
project's other agreements, so that they cannot pull in different directions.
What is still to be written
Named rather than quietly omitted, because a licence with invisible gaps is worse than one with
visible ones. Each of these is operative language that has to come from a lawyer rather than from the
people who wrote the software:
- to draft Warranty disclaimer — the “as is”
clause, and what if anything is warranted.
- to draft Limitation of liability, and its cap.
- to draft Termination — what ends this licence, what
survives it, and what happens to worlds you authored.
- to draft Eligibility and age, which interacts with the
sign-in and with the model's output.
- to draft Changes to these terms — how a new version is
notified and re-accepted. The mechanism exists (a version id, re-prompted on change); the wording does
not.
- to draft Acceptable use, so far as it is ours to state
rather than the model provider's.