> It's not clear to me whether the EULA says that CI/CD is an example of "use that is explicitly invoked by an individual"

I agree that it’s hard to interpret, but isn’t the whole point of CI/CD that developers don’t start builds explicitly? For example, your example doesn’t mention it. You push to a branch, then wait for the build to finish, but never explicitly start it.

So, it seems they want to allow free use in CI/CD setups. Unfortunately, there are a lot of other ways to implicitly invoke the linker. Your typical IDE may already do that when you click “Run” instead of “Build”. I can easily see a lawyer argue that running make qualifies as explicit invocation, too.