is NonCommercial part ment for the using in paid programs/apps only? or more than that?

[Jobima1st]

Hi
From my bad experience with TeamViewer years ago which considered helping some friends online for free as "Commercial" use!

so I think users should know their right limit; so lets say some streamer (or a youtuber) use PadForge to play some games, will this be mean Commercial use?

[hifihedgehog]

Good question, and the short answer is no. A streamer or YouTuber playing games with PadForge is not commercial use in any sense we would ever act on. Neither is using it at work, on a work machine, or in any other setting where money happens to be somewhere in the picture.

Sorry about the TeamViewer experience. That kind of enforcement is exactly what we do not want anyone here worrying about.

To state the boundary plainly: the NonCommercial term covers the software itself, not what you do while it runs. It exists to stop someone taking PadForge, modified or not, and redistributing it for profit. Selling it, bundling it into a paid product, putting it behind a paywall, or shipping a rebranded build for money is the behavior that clause is there to prevent.

So please rest assured. Play games with it, stream with it, record videos with it, use it for your job. None of that draws any license action from us, and it never will. Use it and enjoy it.

The only thing you might ever consider, and there is no obligation whatsoever, is anonymously donating to your favorite charity. As the readme puts it, knowing PadForge is useful is reward enough. If you truly insist on giving something, give it to a charity of your choice and bless humanity, or to the upstream projects that made all of this possible. We do not accept donations ourselves.

[Jobima1st]

thank you! I agree with what you said

Although I think GPL License has very similar goals, I dont mind the "NonCommercial term" you already explained