MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024-2026 Ark Manager contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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SOFTWARE.

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SCOPE AND SEPARATION OF COMPONENTS
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This MIT licence covers the Ark Manager shell: the Tkinter GUI, process /
INI / RCON logic, the local Flex API bridge, the opt-in learn-relay client
and the community-upload client. These are the files listed in
``ark_core.EXPORT_FILES`` (ASM.pyw, ark_core.py, ark_gui.py, ark_rcon.py,
addons.py, flex_api.py, learn_relay.py, update_check.py,
community_upload.py, the installer scripts, icons, and bundled starter
templates).

The Flex AI model, its prompts, its training data, its signed teach-packs,
its publish signing key, and the vhost receiver code under ``tools/`` that
runs on the owner's droplet are NOT distributed under this MIT licence.
Those pieces are proprietary and are not included in any public release
zip or source tarball. Treat anything shipped by a signed ``.flexpack`` or
served from the vhost as separately licensed; see the ``Terms of Use`` on
the download site for how community contributions are handled.

Trademark: "Ark Manager" and the shield-A icon are not covered by this
licence. "ARK: Survival Ascended" / "ARK: Survival Evolved" are trademarks
of Studio Wildcard. This project is unofficial and is not endorsed by
Studio Wildcard.
