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As part of the effort of disseminating information and ideas, the Orion's
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We in the The Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Project have decided on an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike licence. You can find out more about this by clicking on the Creative Commons button at the bottom of this, and other, pages on this site. What it means basically is that you are completely free to publish or distribute a copy, or modify, the Orion's Arm project, in whole or in part, without asking for permission from us, as long as:
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Important Note: All of the above conditions do not apply to generic transhuman or hard SF concepts like nanotech, superhuman AI, megascale engineering, traversable wormholes, personality uploading, animal or other uplifts, human-animal splices or hybrids, orbital habitats, terraforming, gengineering, posthumans, the singularity, etc, etc, all of which are already part of the current SF framework, and in any case predate the Orion's Arm project in some form or another. Orion's Arm in no way owns, or claims to own, these concepts. Nor does Orion's Arm own the idea of a shared world employing transhumanist or other hard SF themes or tropes. So you may freely write a story, create a game, a shared world, or anything else, bringing together all these themes, in any way, as long as it doesn't specifically copy Orion's Arm. (if it does, see the Creative Commons licence)
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Therefore you may use any or all concepts or ideas or events or characters or entities unique to the Orion's Arm setting, including all the details, in any project of your own, assuming the the above condition is met.
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