CartoVox — End User License Agreement

Version 2.3 · Effective 5 October 2026

This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("you", "your") and the Licensor identified in section 16 for the CartoVox software, including its object code, bundled assets, documentation, and any update or supplement the Licensor makes available to you (together, the "Software").

By installing, unlocking, copying, or using the Software, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install, unlock, or use the Software, and delete any copy you hold.

1. What this Agreement covers

1.1 The Software is proprietary and licensed, not sold. The Licensor retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Software.

1.2 This Agreement covers the Software only. Section 7 covers the material you create with it, and section 8 covers third-party components included in it.

1.3 This Agreement does not grant you any right in the "CartoVox" name, logo, wordmark, or icon. Those are reserved to the Licensor.

2. Licence grant

2.1 Subject to your continuous compliance with this Agreement, the Licensor grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to:

(a) install and run the Software on computers that you own or that you personally control, for your own use; and

(b) use the Software to create, edit, export, publish, and commercialise the material described in section 7.

2.2 If you are an individual, this licence is for one person. If you are an organisation, this licence is for the number of individual users for whom the Licensor has issued access codes, and each such user needs their own access code.

2.3 Access codes. Where the Licensor issues an access code, that code is personal to the named or issuing recipient. You must not publish, share, sell, lend, post, or otherwise disclose your access code to anyone else. An access code is not a licence for the person who receives it from you. The Licensor may limit the number of computers one code can unlock, and may withdraw a code at any time.

3. Restrictions

You must not, and must not permit or assist anyone else to:

(a) copy, publish, distribute, share, upload, transmit, mirror, or otherwise make the Software available to any third party, in whole or in part, by any means;

(b) sell, resell, rent, lease, lend, license, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise commercialise the Software itself, or any modified or derivative version of it;

(c) bundle, embed, incorporate, or ship the Software (or any substantial part of it) inside or alongside another product, service, distribution, installer, container image, or hardware device;

(d) operate the Software as a service for third parties, including as a service bureau, hosted or managed offering, or paid generation service, without the Licensor's prior written permission;

(e) remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, licence, attribution, version, or other proprietary notice in or on the Software;

(f) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Software, except to the extent that this restriction is prohibited by applicable law, and then only after you have given the Licensor written notice and a reasonable opportunity to address the need;

(g) modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Software, or circumvent, disable, or defeat any access code, licence check, usage report, or other technical measure in it;

(h) use the Software or its bundled assets as training data, or as input to the training or fine-tuning of any machine-learning model; or

(i) use the Software in breach of applicable law, or to infringe the rights of any third party.

3.2 Bundled assets. The illustration stamps, textures, palettes, icons, wordmark, and other media that ship with the Software are licensed to you only as part of the Software and only for use inside it. You must not extract, redistribute, resell, or offer them as a standalone asset library. This does not restrict the maps and other output you generate (section 7) — an exported map that happens to contain stamped artwork is your output. The bundled typefaces are not Licensor assets: each is licensed to you under its own font licence — the SIL Open Font License 1.1, or for the DejaVu faces the Bitstream Vera and Arev font licences (see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md) — which governs it in full.

4. The Delta programme and pre-release builds

4.1 The Software is currently distributed as Delta, an invited pre-release programme open only to people the Licensor has issued a Delta access code. The Licensor may add, change, suspend, or withdraw features, and may change the terms of distribution, at any time and without liability.

4.2 Delta builds may be incomplete, may contain defects, and may produce incorrect output. Do not rely on a Delta build for anything irreplaceable. Keep your own backups of your worlds, exports, and manuscripts.

4.3 The Licensor may end the Delta programme, or your participation in it, at any time.

4.4 Taking part in Delta includes the usage reporting described in section 6. It is a condition of the programme, not an optional feature: a Delta build that cannot deliver its report for 21 days asks you to connect before it opens again. Sections 3, 7.4, and 10 through 16 survive that ending.

5. Updates

5.1 The Licensor is not obliged to provide updates, upgrades, or support.

5.2 If an update is made available and you install it, the update is part of the Software and this Agreement applies to it, unless the update ships with its own agreement, in which case that agreement governs the updated Software.

6. Privacy, network access and the Delta usage report

6.1 What stays on your computer. Your worlds, maps, lore, manuscripts, scenes, exports, file names and anything you type into the Software stay on your computer. The Software does not send them to the Licensor or to anyone else.

6.2 Unlocking. The first time you unlock a Delta build, it registers your computer with the Licensor's Delta service over the internet. It sends a one-way digest of your access code (not the code itself), a random identifier created for this installation, and the facts listed in 6.3(a). The service answers whether the code is valid, how many computers it may unlock, and whether it has been withdrawn.

6.3 The usage report. While you take part in Delta, the Software records the following and sends it to the Delta service in the background, tied to your access code and installation identifier:

(a) sessions: when the Software starts and stops, how long it was open, its version and release, your operating system and its version, processor architecture, number of processor cores, installed memory, window size, your screen's size and pixel density, and the name your system gives its graphics processor (for example its make and model);

(b) feature use: which tabs, tools, buttons, settings menus and exports you use and how often, identified by the Software's own names for them, and the kind of work you start (for example a generation or a rebuild, with its preset);

(c) errors: error messages and stack traces from the Software's own code, with your home folder, your user name and every file path removed; and

(d) performance: how long generations, rebuilds and renders take, how they ended, and the Software's peak memory use.

Usage waits on your computer while you are offline and is sent when a connection is available. The report never contains your content (6.1).

6.4 Why, where and how long. The Licensor uses the report only to find defects, to understand which parts of the Software are used, and to improve it before release. It is stored with Cloudflare, Inc. as the Licensor's service provider, and kept until 90 days after the Delta programme ends, after which it is deleted or reduced to totals that no longer identify an access code. The Licensor does not sell it or share it with anyone else, except as the law requires.

6.5 Your choices. The report is a condition of taking part in Delta (4.4). You may stop at any time by uninstalling the Software; you may ask the Licensor, through the channel your access code came from, to see or delete the report linked to your code.

6.6 Nothing else. Apart from 6.2 and 6.3, the Software makes no network request of its own. It does not check for updates; new versions are announced in the Discord server, and installing one is an act you choose to perform.

6.7 You are responsible for the security of your own computer, your own access code, and your own backups.

7. Your content and your output

7.1 You keep everything you put in. Worlds you generate, terrain you sculpt, lore and prose you write, names you invent, campaigns you build, and settings you choose remain yours.

7.2 You own what the Software produces for you. The Licensor claims no ownership of, and no licence to, the worlds, maps (including vector maps in SVG and PDF), atlases, settlement plans, gazetteers, chronicles, Compendium pages and vaults, lexicons, manuscripts, names, and other files the Software generates for you, whether by simulation or by your authoring.

7.3 Commercial use of your output is permitted, with no royalty and no further fee. You may publish, print, sell, license, and distribute your generated worlds and derived works — including novels, game products, campaign material, prints, and commercial client work — without attribution and without paying the Licensor anything beyond the price of your licence.

7.4 You are responsible for your output. The Licensor does not review it, does not claim it, and is not liable for it.

7.5 Fonts inside your exports. A PDF the Software writes embeds the parts of the typefaces it uses, and those typefaces are ones that ship with the Software under licences that allow them to be embedded in documents you sell or distribute (section 3.2). The typefaces stay under their own licences; your document does not. An SVG file only names the typefaces it asks for and embeds none; the typefaces your own software substitutes when you open or edit it are governed by their own licences, not by this Agreement.

7.6 Free standalone reader. As an express exception to section 3(a), you may use and share the unmodified generated CartoVox-Reader.html free of charge, without an account or access key. This permission covers that reader only and does not grant rights to distribute the authoring application, keys or other bundled assets. The reader does not grant rights to someone else's world content.

8. Third-party components

8.1 The Software includes open-source and third-party components, each governed by its own licence. Those licences apply to those components, and where they conflict with this Agreement, they govern that component.

8.2 The complete inventory, with the applicable licence texts, is in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, which ships with the Software and is incorporated into this Agreement by reference.

8.3 Nothing in this Agreement restricts any right you have under a third-party component's own licence in respect of that component.

9. Support

9.1 Support is provided on a reasonable-efforts basis through the Licensor's community channel. No response time, fix, or workaround is promised.

9.2 Do not send the Licensor your access code, your private keys, or material you are not free to share.

10. Disclaimer of warranty

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

THE LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT — INCLUDING ANY GEOGRAPHIC, CLIMATIC, GEOLOGICAL, HYDROLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, OR NAMING RESULT — WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE. The Software is a work of fiction-generation and worldbuilding. Its scientific output is a plausible model, not a measurement, and it is documented as such.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so part of this section may not apply to you. In that case the exclusions apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE LICENSOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF THE LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE LICENSOR'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID THE LICENSOR FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) USD 20.

Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. Term and termination

12.1 This Agreement runs until terminated.

12.2 It terminates automatically and immediately if you breach any of section 3 or section 2.3.

12.3 The Licensor may terminate this Agreement on notice if you breach any other term and do not cure it within fourteen days of being told.

12.4 On termination you must stop using the Software and delete every copy you hold. Sections 3, 7.4, and 10 through 16 survive termination.

12.5 Termination does not affect your rights in output you created while licensed (section 7). Files already exported or generated remain yours.

13. Export and sanctions compliance

You must not use, export, re-export, or transfer the Software in violation of any applicable export-control or sanctions law, and you confirm that you are not located in, or a national or resident of, any jurisdiction subject to a comprehensive embargo, and are not on any applicable restricted-party list.

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1 This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Licensor's principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

14.2 The courts located there have exclusive jurisdiction, except that either party may seek injunctive relief anywhere to protect its intellectual property.

14.3 Consumer rights. If you are a consumer, nothing in this Agreement removes any mandatory right you have under the consumer law of your country of residence. Where such a right conflicts with a term here, that right prevails.

15. General

15.1 Entire agreement. This Agreement, together with THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, is the whole agreement between us about the Software and replaces anything said or written before.

15.2 Severability. If a term is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, and the rest stays in force.

15.3 No waiver. If the Licensor does not enforce a term, that is not a waiver of it.

15.4 Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement. The Licensor may assign it to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

15.5 Changes. The Licensor may publish a new version of this Agreement for a future version of the Software. The version you accepted governs the copy you installed, unless you install the newer version and accept the newer terms.

15.6 Headings are for reading only and do not affect interpretation.

16. Licensor and contact

Licensor: Harsit Upadhya

Contact: the channel through which the Licensor sent you your access code. Do not post access codes or licence matters on public issue trackers.

17. Acceptance

You accept this Agreement by doing any of the following:

(a) selecting I accept the licence terms during first-run setup;

(b) entering an access code and unlocking the Software; or

(c) installing, copying, or using the Software in any other way.

If you accept on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to this Agreement.