License
DipshitOS is source-available, not open source.
You can read the code — that is deliberate and part of the project's
personality. But "publicly visible" is not the same as "free to take." The
binding terms are the
LICENSE
file in the repository (the DipshitOS Proprietary Source-Available License,
version 1.0). This page is a plain-language summary, not the license.
What you may do
- View and inspect the source for personal evaluation, commentary, criticism, security review, or educational study.
- Link to the official repository.
- Exercise the limited rights the hosting platform separately requires the copyright holder to grant to users of that service.
What you may not do
Without express written permission from the copyright holder, you may not:
- use or execute the software for your own project, product, service, OS, firmware, research platform, commercial venture, or other work;
- copy, modify, or create derivatives of it;
- redistribute, mirror, sublicense, sell, or host it;
- incorporate any portion of it into another codebase;
- remove or misrepresent copyright, attribution, or license notices; or
- use it as training, fine-tuning, evaluation, benchmark, or retrieval data for a machine-learning system.
Being able to read something is not the same thing as being licensed to take it.
Why this matters
DipshitOS is a from-scratch operating system whose engineering is taken seriously enough that every subsystem is either verified deterministically or live-gated on real hardware. The license keeps that seriousness intact: the source stays visible so the work can be reviewed and learned from, while the copyright holder keeps the rights that an open-source license would give away.
For everything else about the project, start at Home.