Phalcode Source-Available License 1.0

1. Parties, scope, and acceptance

This license is offered by Alkan Alper, Schäfer Philip GbR, operating as Phalcode ("Phalcode").

"You" means the person or legal entity exercising rights under this license. A person acting for a legal entity must be authorized to do so.

"Software" means material that Phalcode expressly designates as covered by this version of this license, including GameVault source code and executable code. It includes modifications of that material, subject to the limits of the rights Phalcode is authorized to grant. Separately licensed third-party components are governed by Section 7.

Your games, media, save files, credentials, and other user-supplied content are outside the scope of this license. This license grants no rights in that content.

After receiving clear notice of these terms and an opportunity to review them, exercising rights granted only by this license indicates acceptance through conduct where applicable law recognizes that form of acceptance. You may also accept expressly. If You do not accept, this license grants You no permission. Rights available without this license remain governed by Section 11.

2. Rights granted

Phalcode grants You a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license for the duration of the applicable copyright, subject to these terms, to:

• Run and study the Software for Noncommercial Purposes.
• Copy the Software and make backup copies for permitted uses.
• Modify the Software and create works derived from it for Noncommercial Purposes.
• Distribute permitted copies and modifications under Section 4.
• Provide noncommercial remote access under Section 6.

These permissions cover source code and executable code. Section 5 specifically governs modifications that bypass Paid Feature Controls and takes precedence over the general modification and distribution permissions.

Phalcode may not withdraw these permissions for compliant use of a copy already licensed under these terms. Termination is governed by Section 10. No right to sublicense Phalcode's material under different terms is granted.

3. Noncommercial purposes and separate commercial permission

"Noncommercial Purpose" means a purpose that is not primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation. The nature of the activity determines whether it is noncommercial; the operator's legal form does not decide the question by itself. An activity may be commercial even if it makes no profit.

Noncommercial Purposes include private entertainment and personal study. Hobby development also qualifies if it has no intended commercial application.

You need separate permission from Phalcode for activities primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation. Examples include selling Software copies, charging for access to its functions, operating an advertising-funded Software service, and supplying the Software as a material part of a paid product or service. The same rule applies to commercial use of modified versions.

Receiving a genuinely voluntary donation does not by itself make an otherwise noncommercial activity commercial, provided that the donation purchases no Software access, feature, copy, hosting, support, or other benefit. A payment described as a donation does not qualify for this exception if it is consideration for such a benefit.

Commercial activities require a separate agreement covering the activity concerned. A GameVault+ subscription or other feature entitlement does not by itself grant permission for commercial distribution, hosting, or exploitation of the Software. Its separately agreed terms continue to apply.

4. Distribution, source code, and ShareAlike

You may distribute unmodified or modified copies of the Software for Noncommercial Purposes only if all of the following requirements are met:

1. The copy contains no Restricted Modification as defined in Section 5, and its distribution does not otherwise violate that section.
2. Each recipient receives this complete license text with the copy. You must retain supplied copyright notices, attribution notices, disclaimers, and relevant third-party license notices. You must identify Phalcode as the developer of the original GameVault material in a reasonable and accessible manner.
3. You identify Your modifications and state that the distributed version is unofficial unless Phalcode has expressly authorized an official release. A change record supplied with the Software may satisfy this requirement.
4. You license Your copyright in modifications and derivative portions of the Software to each recipient under this exact version of this license. Those recipients must receive the same permissions and restrictions for those portions. You may not substitute a different license for the covered material.
5. Every recipient can obtain the Corresponding Source for the exact copy distributed, without charge beyond an ordinary network connection. You must either supply that source with the copy or provide a working download location in the accompanying materials. If You use a download location, You must maintain access for at least three years after Your last distribution of that copy. You may require proof of receipt of the copy but no additional payment or acceptance of additional restrictive terms.
6. You impose no additional contractual restrictions on recipients' exercise of the rights this license grants.

"Corresponding Source" means the preferred form for making changes to the covered Software, including Your changes, together with the build and installation scripts and instructions reasonably needed to reproduce and install the distributed version. It includes code and configuration that implement the version's feature-entitlement checks. It does not require disclosure of private keys, passwords, personal data, third-party account credentials, or general-purpose tools available separately to the public. Separately licensed components remain subject to Section 7.

You need not distribute private modifications or disclose source merely because You make or run them. In particular, Section 4 never requires publication of a Restricted Modification that Section 5 requires You to keep private.

Independent programs and user content do not become subject to this license solely because they communicate with the Software through an interface or are distributed alongside it. This exception does not permit relabeling covered modifications or derivative portions as independent material.

Every recipient receives permission from Phalcode directly for Phalcode-controlled material under this license, and from the relevant modifier for that modifier's covered contributions under this same license. You must not represent that You own or can grant rights belonging to others.

5. Paid features and the personal modification exception

5.1 Definitions

"Paid Feature Controls" means code or mechanisms in the Software that determine whether a user has a valid GameVault+ subscription, license key, payment-based entitlement, or other authorization that Phalcode requires for designated paid features in the applicable release as supplied by Phalcode. A later decision to charge for a previously free feature does not retroactively change permissions for an earlier release.

"Restricted Modification" means a change to the Software, its configuration, or its operating environment that removes, disables, bypasses, substitutes for, or falsifies Paid Feature Controls so that paid features can be used without the entitlement Phalcode normally requires. The definition also covers a version redesigned or repackaged to provide those same covered paid features without the required entitlement.

A change is not a Restricted Modification merely because it corrects a defect while preserving the required entitlement checks, changes unrelated functionality, or removes a paid feature entirely without making it available without the required entitlement. Isolated test doubles and fixtures are also excluded if they operate only in automated tests and do not make paid functionality available without the required entitlement in the version supplied for ordinary operation. Independently created software that does not incorporate or derive from protected Software material is outside the copyright grant of this license.

5.2 Personal use expressly permitted

If You are a natural person, You may make or apply a Restricted Modification to a copy of the Software lawfully obtained under this license and run the resulting version solely for Your own personal, noncommercial use.

For that limited purpose, Phalcode expressly authorizes the necessary modification or bypass of its own Paid Feature Controls within that copy, to the extent Phalcode has authority to give that authorization.

The Restricted Modification itself must remain private, and the functionality it enables must remain exclusively for Your use. You may use devices and servers You own, rent, or otherwise lawfully control, including a remotely hosted server, provided that no other person is given access as a user to the functionality enabled by that Restricted Modification. Other persons may use unaffected functions of the same installation under Section 6; that does not permit supplying them with the Restricted Modification or the modified Software copy.

Infrastructure providers may process installation and backup copies solely to deliver hosting or storage to You, under terms granting no independent use or onward supply of the modified Software. Incidental privileged administrative access for that limited purpose does not itself make the provider a user of the personally enabled functionality. This exception permits a paid general-purpose hosting or storage service, but grants no permission to operate a commercial GameVault managed service or to use the personally enabled functionality for anyone else.

This exception does not permit use on behalf of an employer, business, client, or organization. It does not extend to friends, household members, other server users, or any other person. Each individual who wishes to rely on this exception must independently make or apply their own modification to their own lawfully obtained copy and comply with this license; that rule creates no permission to receive or distribute prohibited materials.

5.3 No onward supply of restricted versions

You may not distribute, publish, upload for others, lend, sell, or otherwise supply a Restricted Modification or a Software copy containing one. This restriction applies to source code, executable builds, containers, patches, and configuration files, whether supplied publicly or privately, with or without payment. Supplying such material to even one friend is outside the personal exception.

You may not let another person use functionality enabled by Your Restricted Modification, including through a shared installation, a user account, remote access, an API, or a hosted service. Moving the bypass into a separate component or entitlement service does not expand the personal exception.

As a contractual obligation where validly agreed, You also agree not to supply patches, scripts, plugins, or other executable materials specifically designed to enable other persons to bypass the Software's Paid Feature Controls. This obligation addresses such targeted materials; it does not assert copyright in independent ideas or general-purpose development tools, and it does not bind persons who have not agreed to it.

These restrictions do not prohibit general technical discussion or lawful security research. Describing a targeted patch, configuration, or executable material as discussion does not create permission to supply it under this license, whether separately or embedded in a post. This rule remains subject to Section 11, including rights to use information or excerpts without contractual restriction under mandatory law.

You may privately supply relevant material directly to Phalcode or its authorized representatives for confidential review as a security report, defect report, fix, or proposed contribution. This exception permits those recipients to review the material, without authorizing its supply to other persons. Contributor permissions for inclusion in the project are addressed separately in Section 9.

5.4 Boundaries of the exception

This exception authorizes changes to Your own Software installation. It grants no permission to access Phalcode's or any third party's servers or accounts without authorization, forge credentials for an external service, obtain another person's subscription, use leaked secrets, or bypass protection of third-party works. It provides no entitlement to cloud services, support, downloads, or other resources supplied separately by Phalcode.

Phalcode may separately authorize a specified distribution, shared use, or other activity in writing. Without such authorization, the personal exception remains limited by this Section 5.

6. Remote access and shared installations

You may operate a Software installation for Yourself and other persons for Noncommercial Purposes, subject to validly applicable feature entitlements and these terms.

Other persons may not use functionality enabled by a Restricted Modification under the personal exception. That prohibition applies even if the installation is private and its users are friends or household members. You must keep any personally unlocked functionality inaccessible to them.

Commercial hosting or other commercial remote access requires separate permission under Section 3. Remote use alone does not count as distribution for Section 4's source-delivery requirement. It remains subject to the noncommercial limitation and all of Section 5.

7. Third-party material and legal ownership

Phalcode grants only rights it owns or is authorized to grant. Copyrights remain with their respective holders.

Components, dependencies, artwork, documentation, or other material expressly supplied under a separate license remain governed by that license. This license neither removes their existing permissions nor replaces their conditions. You must preserve their required notices and comply with their licenses.

The ShareAlike requirements for Phalcode-covered material do not change a separate license applicable to genuinely independent third-party material. You may not combine or distribute material in a manner that requires incompatible permissions. Obtain any additional permissions needed before making such a distribution.

8. Attribution, branding, and paid licensing

The attribution requirements in Section 4 permit truthful identification of the Software's origin. They grant no trademark license for naming, branding, or promoting an unofficial product as GameVault, GameVault+, or Phalcode, except where applicable law permits the use without permission.

You must not imply Phalcode's approval or endorsement of a fork, build, service, or modification. This does not prohibit accurate descriptions of compatibility or origin permitted by law.

Phalcode may offer material it owns or controls under separate commercial or other licenses. Your permissions under this public license do not restrict that ability. Phalcode must itself respect rights belonging to contributors and other third parties.

9. Patents and contributions

For activities permitted by this license, Phalcode also grants a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to patent claims it owns or is authorized to license that would necessarily be infringed by those activities with the Software as supplied by Phalcode. The patent permission does not cover claims infringed solely because of additions or changes absent from that supplied Software, or patents Phalcode is not authorized to license. It lasts for the applicable patent term, subject to Section 10.

When You license Your own covered modifications to recipients under Section 4, You grant those recipients a patent license on the same terms for claims You are authorized to license that would necessarily be infringed by Your modifications, alone or in their combination with the Software as You distribute it. This obligation grants no rights in third-party patents You cannot license.

Publishing a fork under this license does not assign its author's copyright to Phalcode. Contributions submitted for inclusion in a Phalcode repository are subject to the separately presented Contributor License Agreement when validly accepted. This public license does not replace that agreement, establish acceptance of unseen contribution terms, or create retroactive contributor permissions.

10. Duration, breach, and reinstatement

The grants last for the applicable copyright or patent term while You comply with this license.

Subject to mandatory law, an exercise of licensed rights outside the conditions in Sections 2 through 8 is not authorized by this license. Upon that breach, Your copyright and patent grants under this license terminate for the Software release or releases involved in that breach, including Your modified copies of them. Permission for unrelated releases and rights under separate licenses do not terminate merely for that reason. To the extent a promise concerns conduct that requires no licensed intellectual-property right, its breach has contractual consequences only where a valid contract and applicable law provide them; it is not converted into copyright infringement by this license.

For Your first breach of this license, the terminated grants are reinstated prospectively when You fully cure the breach within 30 days after You become aware of it. A continuing breach counts as the same breach until cured; obtaining another copy does not reset the opportunity for first-breach reinstatement. Cure requires You to stop the prohibited activity and remove copies from locations You control. You must also take reasonable steps to stop further unauthorized supply or access. You need not perform acts that are technically impossible or unlawful. Reinstatement does not retrospectively authorize the breach or erase accrued claims.

For a later breach, or a first breach not cured within that period, reinstatement requires Phalcode's express written agreement or a right provided by mandatory law. No contractual penalty or fixed damages amount is imposed by this license.

Termination of Your grants does not terminate permission independently held by compliant recipients for copies lawfully supplied to them. It creates no permission for prohibited distribution of Restricted Modifications.

Terms concerning ownership, the limits of granted rights, accrued claims, warranty, liability, governing law, and interpretation continue to apply as relevant after termination.

11. Mandatory rights and statutory exceptions

This license does not restrict conduct that applicable mandatory law allows without Phalcode's permission. Its restrictions apply only to the extent legally effective.

In particular, it does not override mandatory rights concerning necessary backup copies, observation or testing of a program, permitted decompilation for interoperability, lawful security research, or applicable copyright exceptions. For German computer-program law, the mandatory protections reflected in Sections 69d, 69e, and 69g of the German Copyright Act remain unaffected.

Mandatory consumer protections and rights arising under a separate purchase or subscription agreement remain unaffected. Nothing here extends Phalcode's rights into unprotected ideas or facts, user-owned content, or independently licensed third-party material.

12. Warranty and liability

Unless Phalcode separately agrees otherwise, this public license includes no commitment to support, update, maintain, or provide a particular feature or availability level. Phalcode makes no additional contractual guarantee of performance, suitability for a particular use, or freedom from defects. Statutory rights and separately agreed guarantees remain unaffected.

Liability is unlimited for intent and gross negligence, culpable injury to life, body, or health, fraudulent concealment of defects, and a breach of an expressly assumed guarantee within its scope. Liability under the German Product Liability Act and any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded also remains unaffected.

For simple negligence, liability for breach of a material contractual obligation is limited to loss reasonably foreseeable and typical for the agreement. A material contractual obligation is one whose performance is necessary to fulfill the agreement and on which the other party may ordinarily rely. Subject to the preceding paragraph and mandatory law, liability for other simple negligence is excluded.

These provisions apply correspondingly to persons acting for Phalcode. They do not reduce any statutory liability privilege applicable to a gratuitous grant or limit rights under separately applicable consumer or digital-product rules.

13. Applicable law and interpretation

German law governs this license to the extent a choice of law is permitted. Consumers retain protections of mandatory law that would otherwise apply to them. This license imposes no exclusive court or venue requirement.

This license applies only where version 1.0 is expressly designated for the material concerned. A later license version applies only when separately offered and applicable to that material; publication of a new version does not amend existing grants automatically.

Permissions already granted for earlier releases or material under another license, including Creative Commons licenses, remain available according to those earlier terms. This license does not retrospectively withdraw permission to modify or distribute that material. Phalcode must have sufficient rights before applying these terms to material containing earlier contributions.

If a provision is invalid or has not become part of an agreement, the consequences are governed by applicable law, including Section 306 of the German Civil Code where applicable. The remaining agreement continues only to the extent provided by law. No invalid restriction is automatically replaced with the broadest enforceable restriction.

Additional permission or a waiver by Phalcode must be express and attributable to an authorized representative; an email may satisfy a requirement for writing in this license unless mandatory law requires a stricter form. Failure to enforce a term on one occasion does not itself waive it for another occasion.

This license is a source-available license containing noncommercial and redistribution restrictions. It is not an OSI-approved open-source license.