The 'world' license of the nnn project covers rights on the usage of the ideas of the ingame world, its history, attributes, main personalities (characters) and their histories. As the nnn project is free, its world is also free (with some restrictions described later). It mean that You can use the idea of the world, the names of planets, names of the geographical places, names of characters, the histories of the named objects and personalities, ideas of items (i.e. principles of weapon operation or interstellar flight) etc... etc... The ways of use may be: - usage in nnn project addons development (either the work on the game or work on documentation) - usage in other games development (the games using ideas and/or world structure and/or characters and/or histories of characters and/or places taken from the nnn_project) - usage in other creative arts (i.e. writing fanfics, making dojinsi, creating movies etc... etc...) You may use the named ideas and properties of the nnn project world for free, provided that Your own product is free and when following some rules (see Part A below). Generally You may use the named ideas and properties even if Your product is not free but with some restrictions (see Part B below). Part A. THE GENERAL RULES OF USE THE IDEAS AND PROPERTIES OF THE NNN PROJECT WORLD 1. The stories of places and/or character invoked by Your product MUST NOT contradict to already involved an adopted by nnn project histories. 2. The stories or principles invoked by Your product MUST NOT violate the LAWS OF PHYSICS AND MAGIC actual in the NNN project world. 3. The consequent stories (continuations) MUST NOT contradict personal principles of characters (i.e. if character is described as biker it can not be referenced as milker, or if the main element of the character is electricity it can not turn to be a 'fire' mage. And if the character is honest the very heavy conditions are needed to force it to lie.) 4. In doubtfull cases You MUST ask authors of the nnn project how should act the certain character in certain conditions or what physical or magical law would affect the certain process. 5. Usually in Your product You will introduce new personalities and/or new places where the action goes. It is assumed that those characters and/or places interact with other characters and places of the nnn project world by one or another way. Once You did this You MUST allow others free use of Your introduced content (i.e. others may freely create characters interacting with ones of Yours, etc.) Part B. THE ADDITIONAL RULES OF USE THE IDEAS AND PROPERTIES OF THE NNN PROJECT WORLD IN COMMERCIAL PROJECTS We perfectly know that bucks will defeat everything, and if andybody will make a commercial project based upon the free nnn project it will expell all free beginnings and ideas. However we clearly understand that we can't stop it if it has happened. We can only to try to direct it to respectable ways, so we establish addidional rules for usage content of our project in commercial purposes. As You can note these rules and additions are in no way directed to profit. They are intended to keep the world of the nnn project in the form of logically bound union, to keep it from decaying into many conflicting parts. 1. You MUST follow the general rules essential for all (see Part A above). 2. If Your product is downloadable over the Internet You MUST provide free acess to it for each of the nnn project authors. If Your product is not downloadable over the Internet You MUST provide free copy of it for each of the nnn project authors. If Your product is material one (e.g. statues, dolls, cloth with nnn project symbolic etc... etc...) You are allowed not to provide nnn project authors with free copies, but You MUST provide nnn project authors with free acess to images (photos or drawings) of Your product. 3. If Your product is a Multiplayer Online Game, You Must provide each of the nnn project authors with a free of fee account either with full game master rights or cheatcodes or with such a subset of the game master rights or cheatcodes that allows to make quick overview of game content. From our side we promise not to abuse those rights (not to make profit from items created with GM commands or cheatcodes and not to affect the ingame balance.) 4. Special word must be said on the extension of section A.5 of the general rules to the commercial project. You are allowed to protect binaries/substantional products with Your rights, but You MUST allow others to interact with Your introduced content by their own way. (E.g. You may require payment for usage of Your characters 3D models, however You can not stop others from modeling Your characters by their own efforts and hence from using them in their products connected with nnn project world.) Part C. SOFT RULES OF USE THE IDEAS AND PROPERTIES OF THE NNN PROJECT WORLD Soft rules are not the ones to follow strictly. But a good behavour is always appreciated. 1. If You made a product based upon nnn project ideas and/or properties it should be clearly denoted in its description/documentation. 2. If You made a web site/page devoted to Your product based upon nnn project ideas and/or properties be so kind to place a hyperlink to nnn project site. 3. If You used ideas or properties of the nnn project world it will be a good idea to thank authors of the named project somewhere in Your documentation. Products using the nnn project ideas and properties and following these rules will be canonized and placed to the list of trustfull products based upon nnn project universe. The list will be accessable on our current web site.