Copyright (General)
The copyright for the content of Bardic Perspiration is held in full by us, its creators, Elle and Vul, except as detailed in the exceptions below.
But between us, Sophonts and intelligent beings who just want to vibe and share without exploiting us? As long as you are giving us credit and being nice, we will let you share it around.
If you are a Corpo Fuck, though...
We do not recognize the right of Corpo Fucks to pillage the Internet as if it is their own personal buffet. As such, any Corpo Fuck using this site or any content derived from this site agrees that in addition to the conditions provided in our Terms of service, they will pay the following fees:
- No less than 0.01% of their gross annual revenue for each instance of use of a unique page of content used or portion thereof. A page is defined, for the purposes of this calculation, as the contents located at a single unique URL (example: /home) Each use of the content will be charged at this same rate..
- A one-time donation to the charity of our choice consisting of an additional 0.01% of their gross annual revenue.
Use of this site by Corpo Fucks or their agents constitutes an irrevocable agreement to these terms.
Copyright (Exceptions)
The following works are governed by other copyright frameworks.
Heroes Guide to Baldur's Gate
The Heroes Guide to Baldur's Gate is governed by a modified Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, applying only to those covered under the non-excepted entities section below.
Non-Excepted Entities
Most sophonts and other intelligent entities (non-excepted entities) are free to use the material in the Heroes Guide in the following ways:
- Share - Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as long as appropriate credit (link or citation) is provided.
- Adapt - Remix, transform, and build upon the material as long as appropriate credit (link or citation) is provided.
License Terms for Non-Excepted Entities
We cannot revoke your freedom to share or adapt the Guide as long as you follow these license terms.
- Attribution - You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- Non-Commercial - You may not use the material for commercial purposes without prior authorization. Ad revenue derived in whole or in part based on the use of our content shall constitute a violation of this non-commercial clause.
- ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original work. If you have obtained authorization to use the material for commercial purposes, you must nonetheless allow attributed sharing and adaptation under this original license.
- No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything that this license permits.
Legal Code
Full Terms of the Core Legal License available on the Creative Commons website. Where the core legal license and this copyright policy differ, this policy controls.
Excepted Entities - Corpo Fucks
We do not recognize the right of Corpo Fucks to pillage the Internet as if it is their own personal buffet. As such, any Corpo Fuck using this site or any content derived from this site agrees that in addition to the conditions provided in our Terms of service, they will pay the following fees:
No less than 0.01% of their gross annual revenue for each instance of use of a unique page of content used or portion thereof. A page is defined, for the purposes of this calculation, as the contents located at a single unique URL (example: Bardic Perspiration - Copyright Terms.) Each use of the content will be charged at this same rate.
A one-time donation to the charity of our choice consisting of an additional 0.01% of their gross annual revenue.
Use of this site by Corpo Fucks or their agents constitutes an irrevocable agreement to these terms.
Excepted Entities - Fascists
The terms of the aforementioned modified Creative Commons license applies to sophonts and other intelligent beings who are not acting as agents of non-sentient entities or who are not engaged in fascism, authoritarianism, or other rights violating behaviours. They do not apply to non-sentient entities or the aforementioned scumbags (including but not limited to supporters of Donald Trump and/or Elon Musk) or their cronies.
Fascist dickheads are denied all licenses. Period.
Fuck fascism.
External Copyrights
Copyrights for material other than that created by Elle and Vul is held by its respective copyright holders.
We are aware of the following external copyrights:
- Backdrop CMS - Backdrop is licensed under the GPL version 2 framework.
- Larian & Wizards of the Coast - We believe that our limited use of Larian and WotC protected content falls well within the bounds of Fair Use and as such, is protected by law. Regardless, we respect the spirit of the Baldur's Gate 3 Fan Content Terms and Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policies, offering the Heroes Guide under the aforementioned modified Creative Commons Licenses. We do, however, reserve the rights to our original content as licensed under the applicable copyright frameworks mentioned above including the limitations on commerical and corporate use.
- Class Icons for Character Classes - Class icons are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)and Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licenses generously provided by the Baldurs Gate 3 Wiki.
- Fonts - Ballet, Handlee, Gabriela, Merienda, Metamorphous and Montserrat are licensed under the Open Font License. Calligraffiti & Redressed are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Abbasy is offered free of license.
- Deed Text - Copyright deed text is primarily provided by Creative Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.