Delve licensing question

[Anth0rx]

On the official website an Ironsworn: Delve free preview can be downloaded which contains only the first two chapters and is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.

The full version is a paid commercial product. That is probably why this repository contains Ironsworn: Delve specific content only from the first two chapters, correct?

[rsek]

the text of delve is actually CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 too! here's a screencap of the credits page at the front of the book:

there's content from other chapters (e.g. oracles, moves, encounters/foes) scattered through the various files, but they're especially well-organized about it.

i've been working on a more complete + more detailed version of the data for Datasworn, that's mostly compatible with Dataforged.

if you're using Node for your project, it's available in the package on NPM by importing the ironsworn object. it also benefits from the Typescript typings.

if you're not using Node, the dist folder of the release package contains the full JSON and their JSON schemas in the dist/ironsworn directory: https://github.com/rsek/dataforged/releases/tag/v1.5.0

however, there's a couple caveats on that:

• the ironsworn-specific data there is a preview, e.g. not totally stable. case in point... well, see the next item
• there's extensive breaking changes in dataforged 2.0/datasworn 2.0 (both of which i'd like to release some time this month). so if you only want to migrate once, you might want to defer doing so

[Anth0rx]

Thanks for your prompt response. That is interesting. Thank you so much for your great work on Dataforged. Why do they only provide a paid option for the PDF on their site when the document is CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0?

[rsek]

to my knowledge, there's nothing really stopping anyone from putting the text (and only the text) of Delve online and redistributing it under CC-BY-NC-SA. to get the text from the PDF into a sensible format, that would probably require fair amount of processing, hand-editing, or both.

something like a System Reference Document, on the other hand, usually only makes sense to do with a license that allows for commercial work, like the OGL or CC-BY. SRDs aren't really intended as a player reference in the first place -- they're for designers wanting to build their game on the same rules skeleton.

as to why, shawn would probably know that better than i do. you could always ask him on the discord if you want :)

[Anth0rx]

Thanks for elaborating on this. I didn't get the detail, that only the text is CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. Then it makes perfect sense the way Shawn distributes the PDF.

The Ironsworn SRD contains only the core rules without the Delve supplement, correct?