Gradius IV (JAC) Mod Tool グラディウスIV (JAC) 改造ツール

# Noncommercial + Attribution License
Version 1.0

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【日本語要約（参考・非公式。正式なライセンス本文は本書の英語が正となります）】 本改造（ROMパッチ）および本パッチツールのうち v6.00 以降に作成された部分は、非営利かつ原作者クレジット表示を条件として提供されます。非営利目的であれば自由に使用・改変・再配布できますが、原作者 alamone を原作者として明記し、本ライセンスの各通知を保持してください。改変した場合はその旨を明示し、自作と偽ってはなりません。本改造の販売（焼き込み済みROM／EPROMを含む）を含む商用利用は許可されません。本プロジェクトはファン制作であり、コナミとは一切関係がありません。著作権で保護されたグラディウスIVのROMは含まれません。

This project — the Gradius IV (JAC) mod (its ROM patches) and the parts of the patcher tool authored from v6.00 onward — is licensed under these terms. In short: free to use, modify, and share for any NONCOMMERCIAL purpose, provided you keep the notices and give attribution as required below. Commercial use — including selling the mod, or selling ROMs/EPROMs preburned with it — is NOT permitted.

Fan-made; unaffiliated with and unendorsed by Konami. No copyrighted Gradius IV ROM is included or distributed. The patcher's file-patching scaffold is based on Brad Smith's IPS tool (https://github.com/bbbradsmith/ipstool), released under CC0 (public domain); credited by courtesy.

Required Notice: "Gradius IV (JAC) Mod Tool" — original work by alamone, https://kiban.alamone.net/modtools/g4tool/ . Copyright (c) 2022-2026 alamone.

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