License of Nuitka Commercial

Overview

Nuitka commercial is unlike Nuitka not Free Software, but under a license that forbids the distribution of its source or usage of its code outside of Nuitka.

That however does not impact your software at all, and how you use compiled binaries of your software.

License Text

This is the license text of Nuitka commercial.

Part of Nuitka commercial.

Commercial grade license of Nuitka. No distribution to outside of the
buyer is allowed, the file must be kept secret. Usage is limited to
Nuitka. Changed versions, or versions of changes sent to the
copyright holder are automatically licensed to him under the Apache
License, Version 2.0 as used in proper Nuitka, to allow opening code
up later.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

Intended consequences are

  1. You do not get to sue me, just like with Nuitka itself.

  2. You have to keep Nuitka commercial secret, but you get its source code so you can check that there is no malice.

  3. If you modify Nuitka commercial and send it to me, you automatically relicense to Apache license, such that I effectively can use it in any way, including keeping it in Nuitka commercial, and also making it part of Nuitka standard (the Free Software) edition.