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by maxloh 61 days ago
That is a really limiting license.

Per the LICENSE file:

  Modification Ban: The User has no right to change, modify, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on the Program.

  Distribution Ban: The User has no right to distribute the Program without the prior written permission of the Licensor.
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It's source-available proprietary software that happens to be distributed through NPM.
It's not source available, there's only bundled minified code looking like https://unpkg.com/ooko@0.121.0/static/js/main..js

If this is source available then every website is source available.

Am I crazy or is this not minified, but obfuscated to hide what the code does? Can't test right now
This is a minified code.
But every website is source available. How else would you render it? Streaming PNGs?
I can't afford a free license. I have no sponsors and have been unemployed for a year. It's rare for a free-source project to succeed, so I decided not to use a free license initially.
I find this response a little odd. Absolutely respect the work you’ve put in, but explaining that it doesn’t have a free license because you’ve been unemployed is just bad marketing.

“It doesn’t have a free license because I believe in the product and think it stands out enough to warrant people paying for it” is probably the route you want to go.

> I find this response a little odd

You find honesty a little odd?

That's quite odd.

I'll think about your words, thank you.