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License
This project is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3, which has been chosen very specifically. Here is a thing I would like to point out in particular:
The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there.
I am just a little disappointed that mods used to be shared so freely back then, and now everything's different with donations, closed source, etc. If you guys remember back in the old vault days and even Morrowind, crap like this wasn't an issue - everyone is so used to sharing and not competing with each other for the greater good of the community. Frankly, for me this is a much bigger issue than the previous one about monetary gain, as nearly 99% of the current persistent worlds for Neverwinter Nights are closed source.
One of my biggest inspirations in this project being open is so that it may encourage other persistent worlds to be open as well, and stop the ongoing gatekeeping that is present in older gaming communities, especially this one.
For that reason, please do not use my scripts, areas, etc if you do not want other players/persistent worlds/modules to benefit from your improvements or changes to those as well.
Anyways, if you really want to understand my viewpoint, please check out the Cathedral vs. Parlor. I strongly believe in the Cathedral Modding Concept.
In short:
In the Cathedral Concept, we consider modding a joint effort. We share our work with each other to foster further mod development, to keep the community alive, and to contribute in the construction of mods of monumental scale. Individually, our contributions may be small and not worth doing for themselves, but by each person contributing something, we construct something larger and more worthwhile than any of us could do on our own.