Arkchemy Free & Source-Available License v2.0
Copyright (c) 2026 Aaron ("Aaronateataco", aaron@aaronworld.uk)

This is a permission-required license: unlike a standard open-source
license, using, copying, modifying, merging, publishing, distributing,
or sub-licensing this Software or any derivative work built on it
requires the express, prior permission of Aaron (aaron@aaronworld.uk),
the owner of this project ("Arkchemy", formerly "Bramble", or whatever
name it operates under at any given time), in addition to the
conditions below. Simply finding this repository public does not
grant permission to do any of the above.

1. PERMISSION REQUIRED
   No use, copying, modification, merging, publication, distribution,
   or sub-licensing of the Software, in source or binary form, or of
   any derivative/fork/port of it, is authorized without Aaron's prior,
   express permission. Contact aaron@aaronworld.uk to request it.

2. PROMINENT ATTRIBUTION
   Where permission is granted, all copies, forks, ports, or derivative
   works -- whether distributed in source or binary form -- must
   prominently credit "Arkchemy" (or whatever name this project
   operates under at the time) as the original project, and must
   individually credit every contributor listed in this repository's
   own CONTRIBUTORS.csv (root of the repository) alongside their
   stated role. This credit must be clearly visible in the
   repository's readme, the tool's "About"/"Credits" screen, or an
   equivalent, easily accessible user-visible location.

3. ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF SALES
   Neither the Software nor any fork, port, or derivative work built
   upon it may be sold, commercialized, placed behind a paywall, or
   distributed via any mechanism that requires payment, paid
   subscriptions, or ads-for-access. Access to the software and its
   features must remain 100% free of charge. This applies equally to
   any online service (e.g. "Skylanders Online" or any other
   Arkchemy-operated mode/service) built on this Software: no feature
   may ever be paywalled or made sponsor-exclusive.

4. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT EXCEPTION
   Notwithstanding Section 3, voluntary donation methods (a QR code in
   an in-app/in-service lobby, GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi/Patreon links, or
   similar "support the project" mechanisms) are explicitly permitted
   and confer no gameplay or feature advantage of any kind.

5. SHARE-ALIKE & SOURCE AVAILABILITY (where permission is granted)
   Any fork, port, or derivative work this license's permission is
   granted for must itself be distributed under this exact same
   license and must not be re-licensed. Any publicly distributed
   binary or compiled form of the Software or its derivatives must be
   accompanied by a publicly accessible link to its complete, unedited
   source code.

6. NO REDISTRIBUTION OF GENERATED GAME OUTPUT
   This Software is a static recompilation tool: it transforms a
   user's own, legally-obtained copy of copyrighted game software into
   a form that runs on different hardware. The Software itself
   contains no assets, code, or other content taken from any such
   game, and no project operated under this license hosts or
   distributes any such copyrighted game content -- it is injected
   locally by each user from their own legal copy. Any `.nro`, ROM,
   asset archive, or other output produced by running this Software
   against a copyrighted game is NOT covered by this license and is
   NOT authorized for redistribution -- doing so is copyright
   infringement, independent of and in addition to whatever
   restrictions the original game's copyright holder imposes, and
   independent of and in addition to whatever separate terms the
   relevant game publisher (e.g. Activision, for the Skylanders
   series) imposes on its own software, which every user remains
   separately responsible for complying with. This Software is
   provided solely for personal, educational, and interoperability
   purposes against games the user already legitimately owns.

7. TICOHQ -- CONDITIONAL, NOT ABSOLUTE, EXCLUSION
   The tico project (ticoverse.com), ticohq, and their members are not
   granted permission to use, integrate, fork, or build upon this
   Software or any derivative work of it, UNLESS ticohq's own
   corresponding code is itself made available for others to use, with
   credit, under terms ticohq grants with Aaron's/Arkchemy's permission
   -- i.e. reciprocal openness is required before this exclusion is
   lifted for ticohq specifically. This exclusion does not apply to
   this project's own use of separately-licensed third-party emulation
   cores or libraries, which remain governed by their own real,
   independent licenses regardless of this section.

8. THIRD-PARTY LICENSES
   Where this Software depends on separately-licensed third-party
   components (e.g. emulation cores, libraries), those components
   remain governed by their own real, independent licenses, which this
   license does not override or supersede.

9. LICENSE MAY CHANGE
   This license may be revised in the future at Aaron's/Arkchemy's
   discretion. Continued use of the Software, or of any Arkchemy
   project/service/mode (including fully offline modes), requires
   agreement to whichever version of this license is current at the
   time of use.

10. LICENSE PRESERVATION
   This complete license text must be included in all copies,
   substantial portions, or derivative works of the Software that
   permission has been granted for.

11. CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT PLANNING MATERIAL
   This project's internal planning documentation (currently hosted on
   Notion) is confidential and is NOT covered by the permissions in
   this license: no part of it may be copied, quoted, redistributed,
   or shared outside of individuals granted direct access by Aaron,
   regardless of how that access was granted (development team
   membership, or a research-access invite extended to journalists or
   Skylanders content creators/researchers). Read access does not
   imply any right to republish or redistribute its contents. This
   confidentiality obligation survives any change to this license
   under Section 9 and applies independently of it.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY ARISING FROM USE OF THE SOFTWARE.