What were you hoping to do with the code that the license prevents you from doing? Their license lets you do anything you want except rip them off.
Where is that not allowed?
> A license is allowed if Fedora determines that the license is a free software / open source license. At a high level, the inquiry involves determining whether the license provides software freedom, and (equivalently) making sure that the license does not place burdens on users' exercise of its permissions that are inconsistent with evolving community norms and traditions around what is acceptable in a free software / open source license.
The BUSL is on their list of not allowed licenses[2], so I find it highly unlikely your similar "non-commercial use only" license will be permitted.
[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval [2]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/not-allowed-licen...
in the past linux distributions were needed because distributing software was difficult an the distributions helped get the software to the end users.
today distributing software is easy, and if i want my application usable on debian all i need is to create a debian package that i can distribute myself. which means i can use a more restrictive license and prevent big companies from taking advantage of my work for free.
it is not clear yet what the right approach here is, but getting my application into debian proper is unlikely to help me make any money, so why bother?
i therefore appreciate FUTO experimenting with the licensing model to see if there is a way to get software to the world without allowing profitable companies to freeload on our work.