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

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