Licenses
The notices PoGoBud owes to the people whose work it uses, and where its game data comes from.
Last updated 5 October 2026
Fan tool disclaimer
PoGoBud is a fan-made tool, not affiliated with Niantic, Nintendo or The Pokemon Company. Pokemon, Pokemon GO and all related names, images and game data are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners and are used here to describe and help players of the game. PoGoBud is free, has no ads and makes no money from them.
Data and artwork
- Pokemon, move and type data and Pokemon images: the Pokemon GO Game Master and game assets as published by the PokeMiners community. The underlying game content belongs to Niantic, Inc., Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc. and The Pokemon Company.
- Events, raid and Max Battle schedules, Team GO Rocket line-ups: taken from the official Pokemon GO news (pokemongolive.com/news) and in-game announcements, combined with the PokeMiners data. Event and boss names belong to their owners.
- Raid rotations, Team GO Rocket line-ups and parts of the event schedule: LeekDuck (leekduck.com), via ScrapedDuck (github.com/bigfoott/ScrapedDuck, AGPL-3.0). Facts only; no text or images are copied.
- Spotlight Hour, Raid Hour and Max Monday cross-check: Pokemon GO Hub (pokemongohub.net).
- PvP released flags, meta weights and move stats: derived from PvPoke, which is MIT licensed (notice below).
- Checks only: Pokebattler is a yardstick for our raid rankings. It supplies no data.
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Open-source software
PoGoBud is built with these libraries. Each is used under its own license.
| Package | License | Copyright holder |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js | MIT | Vercel, Inc. |
| React and React DOM | MIT | Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates |
| pg (node-postgres) | MIT | Brian M. Carlson |
| Zod | MIT | Colin McDonnell |
| bcryptjs | BSD-3-Clause | bcrypt.js contributors |
| Auth.js (next-auth) | ISC | Balazs Orban and Auth.js contributors |
| Prisma Client and pg adapter | Apache-2.0 | Prisma Data, Inc. |
| web-push | MPL-2.0 | web-push-libs contributors (used unmodified) |
| Tesseract.js and Tesseract OCR core and English data | Apache-2.0 | Tesseract.js and Tesseract OCR contributors |
| Atkinson Hyperlegible and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono fonts | SIL OFL 1.1 | Braille Institute of America, Inc. |
| Familjen Grotesk font | SIL OFL 1.1 | The Familjen Grotesk Project Authors |
The Tesseract license text ships with the site at /ocr/LICENSE-tesseract.txt. Full license texts for every package are in its published source.
Built with
These tools build, check and style the site. None of their code is shipped to your browser except what the build produces from it.
- TypeScript: Apache-2.0
- Tailwind CSS and @tailwindcss/postcss: MIT
- ESLint and eslint-config-next: MIT
- Vitest: MIT
- Playwright: Apache-2.0
- Prisma CLI: Apache-2.0
- tsx: MIT
- kill-port: MIT
- Type definitions (@types/*): MIT
MIT notices
The MIT-licensed packages above (Next.js, React, pg, Zod) and PvPoke are used under this license text. Copyright holders: Vercel, Inc.; Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates; Brian M. Carlson; Colin McDonnell; and, for PvPoke, Copyright (c) 2019 pvpoke.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.