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License

This page is intended to provide some additional context and explanation of the license terms - however it is NOT a substitute for reading and understanding the actual license and is NOT part of the actual license. The actual license for the LCPF can be found at https://github.com/Lumensalis/LumensalisCPLib/blob/main/LICENSE.txt 

Although the source is available  and it’s intended to be “free as in beer” for people to use on their personal projects, the LCPF is not under an open source license. The reasons for this are a bit complicated, and it might adopt an open source license in the future, but that is not guaranteed.

What you CAN do with the LCPF

Use the Source…

You can view, download, and git clone the LCPF source code from https://github.com/Lumensalis/LumensalisCPLib 

Build your own projects using the LCPF

You can use the LCPF on your personal projects

Show off your projects

You can use your LCPF based projects in both private and public settings, such as

  • conventions
  • tournaments
  • maker fairs
  • live streams
  • social media posts
  • contests and competitions
  • video content (YouTube, TikTok, etc)
  • etc.

What you CANNOT do with the LCPF

Use it for anything that might cause physical injury

The LCPF is not designed for safety critical applications, and in some ways is fundamentally incompatible with the safety-related patterns required to build them properly. So if you’re trying to build your own laser cutter or add a powered exoskeleton to help you walk around in your W40K Space Marine cosplay, the LCPF is not for you.

Although causing discomfort or temporary psychological trauma, such as a DM adding a bit of spice with terrain/miniature effects while springing a trap on their unsuspecting players is not only allowed, but sometimes encouraged[^sessionZero]

Distribute the LCPF in any way

You cannot share, give, sell, or otherwise distribute the LCPF in any way.

Giving someone else a project you’ve built with the LCPF is a form of “distributing” the LCPF, since the LCPF code is part of the project. Which means you can’t do it under this license. Hopefully this restriction will go away in the future, but lifting it for “personal” use without opening loopholes for commercial exploitation is a complicated issue and will probably require legal advice.

In the meantime, if you want to share your project with others, feel free to ask for permission, and for reasonable non-profit (friends and familiy, charity raffles, etc.) cases you’ll probablyget it.

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