Credits & Licenses

The Lampward application is not currently published under an open-source license.

Every game remains credited to its creators. These are the public credits attached to the exact releases Lampward currently serves; each title page carries the fuller release provenance and notices.

• Adventure

  Will Crowther and Don Woods. Open Adventure restoration by Eric S. Raymond and contributors; Glulx port by Daniel Fox Franke, compiled with Wasm2Glulx for the Bedquilt project.

  BSD 2-Clause License
• All Things Devours

  Written under the pseudonym “half sick of shadows”. The Inform 6 source was explicitly released into the public domain by its author.

  Public domain
• The Art of Fugue

  Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen and Johan.

  GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
• Counterfeit Monkey

  Emily Short.

  CC BY-SA 4.0
• Curses

  Graham Nelson.

  The release's own distribution notice permits free, unmodified redistribution where no profit is involved.
• Desert Adventure

  Sam Trenholme. Written in Scott Adams' TRS-80 adventure format.

  BSD 2-Clause License
• The Dreamhold

  Andrew Plotkin.

  Plotkin has publicly stated that his games may be freely redistributed but not commercially redistributed without permission, and explicitly approved The Dreamhold's inclusion in a freely distributed 2022 Z-code compilation.
• Fate

  Victor Gijsbers. Winner of Spring Thing 2007.

  GNU General Public License v3.0
• Figaro

  Victor Gijsbers. Written for the Innovation Comp.

  GNU General Public License v3.0
• Galatea

  Emily Short. Distributed in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (Electronic Literature Organization, 2006).

  CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
• Lost Pig (And Place Under Ground)

  Admiral Jota. Winner of the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition.

  CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
• Savoir-Faire

  Emily Short. Distributed in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (Electronic Literature Organization, 2006).

  CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
• Shade

  Andrew Plotkin.

  The game's own ABOUT text grants free distribution of the unchanged story file while prohibiting sale or inclusion in a for-profit collection without the author's written permission.
• Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

  Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, Infocom. Descended from the mainframe Zork by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling. Source released under the MIT License by Microsoft in November 2025; this story file was compiled by Lampward from that source with ZILF and ZAPF 1.9.

  MIT License source / Lampward build
• Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz

  Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, Infocom. Descended from the mainframe Zork by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling. Source released under the MIT License by Microsoft in November 2025; this story file was compiled by Lampward from that source with ZILF and ZAPF 1.9.

  MIT License source / Lampward build
• Zork III: The Dungeon Master

  Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, Infocom. Descended from the mainframe Zork by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling. Source released under the MIT License by Microsoft in November 2025; this story file was compiled by Lampward from that source with ZILF and ZAPF 1.9.

  MIT License source / Lampward build

These are the primary libraries Lampward directly builds on. The versions below come from the generated installed-package inventory, not a hand-maintained version list.

• Next.js 16.3.3 — MIT
• React 19.2.8 — MIT
• Supabase JS 2.112.4 — MIT
• Supabase SSR 0.12.5 — MIT
• AWS SDK for JavaScript — S3 3.1121.0 — Apache-2.0
• node-postgres 8.23.0 — MIT
• Zod 4.5.4 — MIT

Build tools, transitive dependencies, optional platform packages, and their declared licenses are listed on the full public software license inventory. Nothing on this page depends on access to Lampward’s private source repository.

Z-machine games run through Parchment 2026.8.23 with Bocfel. Glulx games run through Quixe 2.2.1, designed by Andrew Plotkin, with GlkOte. Both runtime families are MIT licensed.

• Bocfel — Z-machine interpreter — MIT
• Parchment / AsyncGlk / Emglken / RemGlk-rs — Z-machine browser runtime — MIT
• Quixe — Glulx interpreter — MIT
• GlkOte — Quixe browser I/O — MIT
• jQuery — MIT
• Iosevka — SIL Open Font License 1.1

Exact vendored-runtime notices are public at /parchment/2026.8.23/NOTICE.md and /quixe/2.2.1/NOTICE.md.

General-English definitions come from FreeDictionaryAPI.com, using Wiktionary data under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each online definition links back to its Wiktionary source and repeats the license attribution supplied by the API.

Dictionary lookup is optional. Lampward checks its local game and parser glossaries first; only pressing Look up online sends the selected single word to the dictionary service.