Freedom
The game is free to play. Code uses AGPL-3.0-or-later; original cultural work uses CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nobody owns the mattress.
The Commons
The Horizontal Front belongs in the digital commons: freely accessible, open to study and adaptation, and accountable to the people who play and build it.
What makes that materially true
Privacy
No player tracking, behavioural analytics, advertising profiles or transmission of progress and settings.
Participation
Development happens in public. Players and contributors may propose changes and raise charter concerns.
Access
Static, offline-capable delivery, modest hardware requirements, accessibility settings and translation are design requirements.
Accountability
Funding cannot buy control, access or advantages. Material funding and major expenses must be disclosed.
Anti-enclosure
The canonical project cannot be sold, paywalled or converted into an advertising or data-extraction platform.
The public record
The documents below are maintained alongside the code, proposals and issue tracker in the public GitHub repository.
Project charterThe protected commitments that cannot be weakened.
GovernanceWho decides, how to participate and how to challenge a decision.
Community identityCanonical status without enclosing forks, criticism or cultural participation.
ContributingHow to propose work and review it against the charter.
LicensingThe boundary between software copyleft and cultural share-alike.
Honest about where we are
The project is currently maintainer-led, not community-governed by a large membership that does not yet exist. Maintainer authority is constrained by the charter, and the governance process provides a path toward broader stewardship as participation grows.