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Do the binaries have to be usable forever? Or for how long? What if some system update breaks them?

They don't, they just need to be usable at end of life. The proposal is purposefully very lenient

Can they include a dead man's switch so they become unusable one day later?

I think so, as long as it's not reliant on a central server!

Nope! Do I need a fleet of servers to run it? No problem! Do I need a specific release.minor.patch of FreeBSD? No problem! Do I need your proprietary kernel patches? Yeah you need to release those.

Or do you have tooling that allows your devs to run it on their machines without the server components (most online games do)? Releasing that instead is also an option.

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