On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:02:16 -0800 Thomas Frohwein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:39:16 +0100 > Kirill A. Korinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 4) About license, I read this: > > > > > > > > > You may use or modify the software only for your own internal > > > > > business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use. You > > > > > may distribute the software or provide it to others only if > > > > > you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes. > > Non-commercial is an explicitly allowed use. Since OpenBSD stopped > selling CD-ROMs, it has been non-commercial. > > > > > > > > > I not sure that it can be distributed as precompiled package. > > > > > > > > > > Upstream wasn't too helpful when I asked about this either [1] > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce/issues/428 > > > > > > > Now I recall that! > > > > My point that it needs: > > > > PERMIT_DISTFILES = No > > PERMIT_PACKAGE = No > > I think PERMIT_PACKAGE=Yes is appropriate as non-commercial is > allowed. > > As long was it's non-commercial (or for internal business use or > personal use), the licensor grants: "[...] license to use, copy, > distribute, make available, and prepare derivative works of the > software [...]" > > > > > but other may have other point of view on this. > > As this is a non-standard license and doesn't consider itself an > open-source license ("fair-code license" seems to be their term [1]), > probably best to hear other voices. > > [1] > https://docs.n8n.io/sustainable-use-license/#what-are-the-main-differences-between-the-sustainable-use-license-and-your-previous-license-arrangement-apache-20-with-commons-clause > PS: there is a precedent: games/devilutionx also has Sustainable Use License 1.0 and is PERMIT_PACKAGE=Yes
