Licenses and provenance
Atrinik is made from code, world data, media, and presentation material. One license does not automatically cover another part of the project.
Three different questions
“Human-led” describes creative direction and responsibility; it does not require every permitted editing tool to be manual, identify a sole creator, prove provenance, or replace the exact license attached to a file or collection.
Generated visual and audio assets—including pixel art, graphics, animation, music, and sound effects—are not accepted as final game content. Clearly identified generated versions may be temporary design drop-ins pending suitable human-created replacements. A human content creator may use generative tools to help shape maps or develop quests, dialogue, and lore while directing and reviewing the result. Owner audits of the existing corpus are still in progress.
Each work must retain its human creator or upstream project, source, transformations, and applicable notices. Crossfire, Daimonin, Atrinik contributors, and other creators keep their specific credit.
Permission comes from the exact license or grant for the work—not from its creation method or the license of nearby software. Known gaps remain visible and fail closed for new publication.
The license map
Repository notices and per-file records remain authoritative. These labels explain the project’s main boundaries.
MIT
The source code for atrinik.org is MIT licensed. That license covers the website, not every game package or authored asset it describes.
View the website sourceGPL-2.0-or-later
The client, server, editor, libatrinik, and protocol software maintained together in atrinik/classic are GPL-2.0-or-later. Bundled maps, graphics, audio, fonts, and other authored assets can have their own exact terms.
MIT
The independently released Go and Rust replacement foundations are MIT licensed and use evidence-gated provenance. Independent implementation is the default where exact reuse is unproven. Exact, separable historical contribution can be MIT-relicensed at a destination only when a complete-history audit proves it fits one applicable approved historical grant's past-contribution and sole-authorship scope. Distinct contributions may cite different grants, but grants cannot be combined for joint or inseparable work. That never changes the GPL terms of the Classic source repository. The foundations remain separate from Classic and do not yet form a complete public download.
Read the replacement roadmapMixed and per-file
Maps, archetypes, quests, writing, graphics, audio, and other authored world content use mixed licenses. Follow the notice attached to the specific file or collection.
Read content attribution statusMIT
Four temporary atmospheric concept images were generated with OpenAI and are MIT-licensed presentation material. They are explicitly recorded and credited, are not game content or gameplay footage, and remain temporary design drop-ins until suitable human-created visuals are found or made.
Follow their replacementRepository-owned evidence
These concrete records describe current attribution and provenance; open owner issues track policies and corpus audits that are not yet complete. This page does not copy ledgers that could drift.
Maps, archetypes, quests, dialogue, lore, and embedded authored scripts.
Source audio, human creators, licenses, transformations, and runtime encodings.
Shipped graphics and media with upstream, author, source, license, and notice records.
GPL C software history plus repository and per-file upstream attribution.
Locally retained sources, immutable digests, transformations, notices, and accessible text.
Website media catalogA quiet website
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