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Radial Timeline® © 2025 Eric Rhys Taylor

This project is released under the Radial Timeline Source-Available Non-Commercial License.

Radial Timeline is protected by U.S. Copyright Registration TX0009593938 and U.S. Trademark Registration No. 8,251,843. The Radial Timeline visualization system is the subject of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/951,412 and is marked Patent Pending.

For the canonical license text, see: LICENSE

What the license means in practice

The license is built around one idea: the plugin is free for writers — including professional writers — but the software itself is not for resale or redistribution. The table below is a plain-English summary; the LICENSE file is the legally binding text.

You want to…	Allowed?
Use the plugin for personal, educational, or professional writing	✅ Yes
Write and sell novels, scripts, games, or any creative work made with it	✅ Yes — your creative work is 100% yours (§4)
Read the source code to understand how it works	✅ Yes
Modify the source code for your own private use	✅ Yes
Suggest features, report bugs, or submit pull requests	✅ Yes (§5 governs contributions)
Redistribute the plugin, modified or not (mirrors, bundles, forks for public use)	❌ Not without written permission
Sell, sublicense, rent, or otherwise commercially exploit the software	❌ Not without written permission
Publish a derivative or substantially similar plugin, product, or service	❌ Not without written permission
Offer the software as a hosted/SaaS/multi-user service	❌ Not without written permission
Use the "Radial Timeline" name, logo, or registered trademark to brand forks, distributions, related software, products, or services	❌ Not without written permission
Copy, commercialize, or publish a substantially similar implementation of the patent-pending Radial Timeline visualization system	❌ Not without written permission

In short: what you write belongs to you, commercially and completely. The tool belongs to its author. For commercial licensing, redistribution rights, enterprise use, or partnerships, contact Eric Rhys Taylor (see the LICENSE file).

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Notice

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Acknowledgments

This project stands on the shoulders of many generous teachers, tools, and storytellers:

• 04 Font by Yuji Oshimoto — Japanese freeware font. © 1998–2003 Yuji Oshimoto. 04.jp.org
• d3.js — data-driven SVG visualizations.
• Hero Patterns by Steve Schoger — SVG motifs used in the Working-status scene fill, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• Obsidian — for a thriving plugin ecosystem and thoughtful feature development.
• Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (2018), Jessica Brody — a practical articulation of the Save the Cat beats.
• The Story Grid, Shawn Coyne — a rigorous methodology for analyzing scenes and beat flow.
• W3C SVG specification — for making vector graphics on the web dependable.

Bundled fonts (PDF export)

• Latin Modern Roman — used for the Signature template.
• Sorts Mill Goudy by Barry Schwartz — used for the Professional template.
• Source Serif 4 by Frank Grießhammer — used for the Standard template.
• Arial — used for the Basic template.

All bundled fonts ship with their original license files in assets/fonts/.