Hmm. I decided to take a look at the commercial licenses on Binpress, and this caught my eye: 2.4 Including the Right to Create Derivative Works: Lice

Hmm. I decided to take a look at the commercial licenses on Binpress, and this caught my eye: 2.4 Including the Right to Create Derivative Works: Licensee may create derivative works based on Software, including amending Software’s source code, modifying it, integrating it into a larger work or removing portions of Software, as long as no distribution of the derivative works is made Now, a lot of the components on Binpress are things like Objective-C classes for use in iOS. But linking to such a class creates a derivative work, and it sounds like you are not then allowed to distribute your derivative work, which would make it rather useless. Given section 2.1, it sounds like the license is intended to be used only for server-side code, not anything that will be distributed to end users. 2.1 Limited: Licensee may use Software for the purpose of: 2.1.1 Running Software on Licensee’s Website[s] and Server[s]; 2.1.2 Allowing 3rd Parties to run Software on Licensee’s Website[s] and Server[s]; 2.1.3 Publishing Software’s output to Licensee and 3rd Parties; 2.1.4 Distribute verbatim copies of Software’s output (including compiled binaries); 2.1.5 Modify Software to suit Licensee’s needs and specifications. But a lot of these components are client side-components. There is either something wrong with their license, or something wrong with their curation, if they are trying to license client-side code with a license that seems to only make sense for server-side code. There seem to be lots of other problems with the licensing, too; the license summaries will say things like "Can be distributed in 5 projects" but the actual license itself never mentions the number 5 at all (example: http://www.binpress.com/license/read/id/1225/app/1063 http://www.binpress.com/license/read/id/1225/app/1063). Or the "developers license" will say that it's "Sublicensable", but not define what that means or what restrictions there are. Given that it seems that the core reason for Binpress to exist is to make it easy to commercially license small software components, the fact that the licenses make no sense does not make me feel very comfortable about using it.