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curious that the souce metions MIT license at top but in the bottom it says "2. Don't use our resources for closed source projects";

was that intentional? my current understanding of MIT license is a "do anything, i don't care, just don't blame me".

if i were you and wanted to use "dont use our resources" part, i would set it as AGPL or even SSPL if you are brave enough.

There's a difference between what you are allowed to do with the code, which is what the MIT license covers, and what you are allowed to do with a specific hosted platform on which the code is running, which is what that term is part of.

oh. Do... you need to specify another license for that? this is interesting.

It's not a license, it's rule #2, where "This _network_ has three rules: [...]"

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