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Do you mean that the license does not permit third parties to distribute compiled binaries, but only modified source code? Such a license does not meet the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition . If you just mean that you (the original developer) want to give away the source but charge money for a compiled, installable version, you can already do that.

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My thought is something like this: Building the project successfully confers full MIT license rights to the user who built the project.

That sounds like you’d just want MIT then and simply license your distribution of the binaries separately. However, doing that would mean that someone could just compile it themselves and then release their own binaries. You’d probably want to have a custom license that prevents distribution of binaries entirely.

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