Steward Source-Available License
Copyright (c) 2026 Agustin / Steward. All rights reserved.

Steward is a free, unofficial character companion for tabletop roleplaying.
It is distributed as a single HTML file that your browser downloads in order to
run it. Because of that, its source is visible to anyone who opens it. Visible
is not the same as unlicensed: this file states what you may and may not do with
it.


1. WHAT THIS LICENSE COVERS

This license covers the original material of the Steward project: its source
code, rules engine, user interface, visual design, illustrations, icons, written
copy and documentation.

It does NOT cover:

  (a) Third-party material included in or alongside the project, which keeps its
      own license. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. In particular, material from the
      System Reference Document 5.2.1 is licensed by Wizards of the Coast LLC
      under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, and nothing in this
      license restricts your rights to that material under those terms.

  (b) The Steward name, logo and visual identity as indicators of origin, which
      are addressed in TRADEMARKS.md.

  (c) Any character data you enter. That is yours. It never leaves your device.


2. WHAT YOU MAY DO

  (a) Use Steward for any purpose, personal or commercial, at your table or
      anywhere else, free of charge.

  (b) Run it locally: download the file and open it offline, including keeping a
      copy for your own use so the application keeps working if the website goes
      away.

  (c) Read and study the source, including for learning purposes.

  (d) Quote short excerpts of the source or the copy for commentary, review,
      teaching, journalism or research, with attribution.

  (e) Report problems, suggest changes, and share the ideas you find here.


3. WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION

  (a) Redistribute Steward, in whole or in substantial part, modified or
      unmodified, whether free or for a fee. This includes republishing it on
      another website or domain, bundling it into another product, and
      distributing it through an app store or package registry.

  (b) Present Steward, or a work derived from it, as your own, or remove or
      alter the copyright and attribution notices it carries.

  (c) Use the Steward name, logo or visual identity in a way likely to suggest
      that another product is Steward, comes from Steward, or is endorsed by it.

Permission for any of the above can be requested at hello@stewardrpg.com, and
may well be granted. The point of this section is that the decision stays with
the author, not that the answer is no.


4. NO WARRANTY

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Steward is not a source of official rules. Your books and your table remain the
authority on how the game is played.


5. NOTE ON SCOPE

This is a source-available license, not an open source license as defined by the
Open Source Initiative, and it is not intended to be one. It is written to be
readable by the people who actually use Steward rather than to be legally
exhaustive. If you need certainty for a specific use, ask.