There are patents.
There is taboo locations
There is also laws that will be created that limit the legal use of certain weapons.
These each use implicit and explicit contracts to regulate.
But don't expect an equivalent of a nuke around 300 AD...
Don't even expect equivalent of TNT or A Pipe bomb for even a 5 or 6 real life years. 250-300 in game years passed.
This all depends on how realistic they want to be with tech of course, or if tech suddenly uses magic instead of electricity or mechanical energy.