[threecheese]

That’s a very interesting model, I don’t think I’ve seen that before. Is the rust engine that sits underneath Python shipped as a compiled executable, with a license check/capability limitation? EDIT: there is rust source code in the Pathway repository.

Another edit: there is license checking code in the rust source; it seems fair to ask users of your copyrighted code to abide by your limits, even if they are self-enforced, if that’s the implicit agreement in the sharing of the thing. Objectively.

[dxtrous]

It's absolutely great to see you've figured out the details of it! Indeed, the repository comes with a mix of Python and Rust which need to be built together. We trust our users not to re-build the package with altered parameters for production use (given the package build from sources is slightly non-trivial and takes an hour or two, one cannot really get this wrong by accident...). Then, for learning and non-production use, the BSL under which Pathway is distributed, allows you to do almost anything with the code.