GBUDDY'S ESCAPE
Terms of use

Version 0.39, 16 October 2026
Copyright (c) 2026 Dr. Marcel Pflug, info@gameboymuseum.com


WHICH VERSION THIS COVERS
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These terms apply to version 0.39 of GBuddy's Escape, the release
named in this file. They are granted for this release and do not bind
any later one.

Releasing this version free of charge is a decision about this version.
The author remains the author, and a later release may carry different
terms, including a price. That takes nothing away from this one: a copy
obtained under these terms stays under them, for as long as it exists.


THE SHORT VERSION
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Free to download, free to play, free to put on a cartridge, free to give
to somebody else. Nobody may sell this version.


WHAT YOU MAY DO
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    Download it and run it, in an emulator or on real hardware.

    Write it to a flash cartridge for your own use.

    Copy it and pass it on, complete and unchanged, together with this
    file and the README.

    Show it in a classroom, a club or a museum, as long as nobody is
    charged for it.

    Write about it, take screenshots of it, film it, put it in a video
    or an article. No permission needed.


WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO
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    Sell it, or anything containing it. That includes selling a
    cartridge with this ROM on it, whether the price is for the ROM,
    for the cartridge, or "for the work of flashing it".

    Use it, or any part of it, in a commercial product.

    Publish a changed version. Private changes are your own business; a
    modified copy that circulates under this name is not, because the
    whole point of the experiment is that what is on the screen comes
    from the learning described here and nothing else.

If you want to do something that is not on either list, ask. The address
is at the top of this file, and the answer is usually yes.


THE FORMAL EQUIVALENT
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These terms match Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial
NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Where the wording
above and that licence differ, the wording above is what is meant.


WHAT IS NOT COVERED
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GBuddy is the mascot of the Game Boy Museum. The character, the name
and the cartridge label are not released under these terms beyond what
is needed to pass the download on unchanged.

The portrait on the ABOUT screen shows the author. It may be shown as
part of the running cartridge, in screenshots and in videos of it, and
not otherwise.

Game Boy and Nintendo are trademarks of Nintendo. They are used here
only to name the hardware the cartridge runs on.

This is an independent work. It is not made, licensed, endorsed or
reviewed by Nintendo.


NO WARRANTY, AND NO LIABILITY
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This software is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind.

It does nothing a game does not do. It reads and writes memory, uses
the battery backed RAM of the cartridge and puts pictures on the screen.

RESET AI and a change to the maze clear part or all of what GBuddy has
learned, and both ask before they do. A save can still be lost, through
a flat battery, an interrupted write or a flash cartridge that was not
given time to store it.

The author accepts no liability for loss or damage arising from the use
of this cartridge, including loss of saved data. Anyone running it does
so on their own responsibility.
