Noncommercial

Noncommercial works cannot be duplicated or adapted for commercial purposes.

This category does not include licences that forbid both commercial copying and any kind of adaptation. For those works, see Verbatim.

Openness: Proprietary

Works and Sources

Works

• Secret Santicore 2011 ● A collection of role-playing material.
• Shadow-Hack ● A mashup of Old School Hack and Shadowrun.
• Shared Creations ● 'Making use of Creative Commons'
• Shrimp ● 'A realistic peek at people in a suburban American strip-mall dojo, complete with realistic divorce friction and realistic bleak memories.'
• Smarthistory ● 'Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. '
• Sneaky Cards ● 'Sneaky Cards is designed to encourage, inspire, or facilitate playful interactions. Breaking up the tedium of everyday life, with small entertaining objectives. Each card is created to be unique and develop different kinds of play.'
• Somnambulance ● Teenagers struggle to discover the truth behind their mysterious sleep-walking.
• Sorcerer's Symposium ● A madcap game of magic running out of control at a wizards' conference.
• Star Empire ● Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
• Star Quest ● A science fiction game and a setting with no strict cannon.
• Star Wreck ● An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
• Stories System ● A generic rules-lite game engine.
• Story Games Names Project ● A big book of names from different cultures.
• Storyleaves ● A solitaire game that tells a story.
• Superliga ● A d20-based game dedicated to gonzo gaming.
• Tale of Navri ● An adventure game set on a skyship.
• Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque ● Horror role-playing resource.
• Tea Party ● Play Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber in this Lady Blackbird hack.
• Ten Thousand Worlds ● A game which allows you to describe almost anything based on its 'levels'.
• The Accessible Icon Project ● Using a more dynamic disabled access symbol.
• The Art of Community ● About open source, crowdsourcing and community creation from Jono Bacon, the man who runs Wired.
• The Beggar's Opera (RPG) ● An experimental RPG based on the John Gay play of the same name.
• The Cathedral and The Bazaar ● Why open source works.
• The Commons Collages ● Collages created from a number of photos.
• The Devil's Brood ● A Plantagenet family drama LARP for 7-9 players
• The Faces of Angels ● A story of those with inhuman power and very human relationships.
• The First Year of Our REIGN ● Supplements 1 to 6 for REIGN.
• The Free Culture Game ● A game about commercialisation of content.
• The Great Tournament ● Play a martial artist attending the greatest tournament ever held.
• The Internet's Own Boy ● A documentary about Aaron Swartz.
• The Kingdom of Nain ● A wizarding setting for REIGN. (REIGN Supplement #13)
• The Last Challenge ● Old warriors gather round a campfire to tell stories of their exploits and prepare for the final battle of their careers.
• The Most Dangerous Game ● 'The second SMBC compilation, featuring comics from the entire archive, but focused on 2011.'
• The Mustang ● A short game about three youths who confront a demon horse.
• The New Death and others ● '44 stories. 19 poems. No sparkly vampires. There’s a thin line between genius and insanity, and James Hutchings has just crossed it – but from which direction?'
• The Princess Game ● This is a game about a little girl. The only little girl in the whole wide world. The only person there is, really.
• The Public Domain ● A book on copyright, copyleft and everything else.
• The Second Year of Our REIGN ● Supplements 7 to 12 for REIGN.
• The Slip ● An album from Nine Inch Nails.
• The Social Media Reader ● 'Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few.'
• The Third Year of Our REIGN ● Three alternative settings for REIGN.
• The Trial of Poland ● The rise of Solidarity in Poland.
• The Trouble with Rose ● A game about that troublesome Rose!
• The Undying Lands ● People from the real world are catapulted into a land of fairy tales.
• The Wealth of Networks ● A book on the information networks made possible by the Internet.
• The WIRED CD ● "These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them."
• The World of Glain ● A setting for use with any D&D style game.
• Theatre Is Evil ● 'Theatre Is Evil is a studio album by Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra produced by John Congleton.'
• These People Mean Nothing To Each Other ● 'Four short pieces form something greater than the sum of their parts.'
• Thetis ● A world of nautical fantasy adventure.

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Sources

• openDemocracy ● 'openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.'
• OpenDesk ● Purchase ready-made furniture or download the source files and make your own.
• OpenTextBookStore ● 'We scour the Internet for the best quality textbooks issued under open licenses that allow for printing.'
• Peter Watts ● A hard sci-fi author.
• Pratham Books ● A publisher of multicultural and multilingual children's books.
• Quote Unquote Records ● A donations-based music label.
• Radio Nowhere ● 'Radio Nowhere is a rock/pop band from Oakland, California, in the United States. A friend told me that we sound like the missing link between Counting Crows and Duran Duran, and that sums it up pretty well.'
• Records on Ribs ● 'Records on Ribs is a record label. We give away all our music for free download under a Creative Commons license. We also provide beautifully made and fairly priced physical releases'
• REM ● An American rock band.
• Severed Fifth ● A band.
• Small Beer Press ● "Read to live. Live to read."
• spoppy ● Cartoons and illustrations.
• Stargazer Games ● A game designer.
• Stargazer's World ● A role-playing blog.
• Storn R Cook ● An artist, primarily of fantasy portraits.
• Strolen's Citadel ● "[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource"
• Stuck In Customs ● Trey Ratcliff's travel photographs.
• Telecanter ● A tabletop RPG website.
• The Freesound Project ● A database of sounds (not songs).
• Unamused Comics ● A website that hosts three comics.
• Valent Games ● An RPG publisher, now giving its works away gratis.
• Vincent Baker ● A game designer.
• Wiley Open Access ● A variety of journals published by Wiley.
• WIRED ● A magazine.
• Wu Ming Foundation ● Literature written by a collective.
• Yaruki Zero Games ● A company that publishes a number of games.
• Yochai Benkler ● A professor of law and author of works on commons-based production.
• Zach Weiner ● A cartoonist who writes Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

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Licences

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ● A Creative Commons licence which forbids copying or adapting the work for commercial purposes.
• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike ● A Creative Commons licence which requires copies and adaptations to be under the same licence and not made for commercial purposes.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial ● A retired Creative Commons licence.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial-Sampling Plus ● A Creative Commons licence for musical works.
• Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike ● A retired Creative Commons licence.
• Creative Commons Sampling Plus ● A Creative Commons licence which allows copies and adapatations of the work provided credit is given.
• OpenContent License ● A retired noncommercial common content licence.

• Dungeon Squad ● The engine of the simple dungeoneering game of the same name by Jason Morningstar.
• Dungeonslayers ● The engine supporting the 3rd and 4th editions of Dungeonslayers.
• Hackbird ● Games based on John Harper's Lady Blackbird.
• SFX! System ● The Simple, Fast, Exciting RPG system.