BSD license gives you the permission to use and to redistribute. In this case you may use and redistribute the binaries.

Edit: To use, redistribute, and modify, and distribute modified versions.

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met..."

https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause

Such a crazy distortion of the meaning of the license.

Imagine being like "the project is GPL - just the compiled machine code".

This is pretty common for binary blobs for where the source code has been lost.

From the above link:

> While the wheel packages are available at https://pypi.org/project/fireducks/#files, and while they do contain Python files, most of the magic happens inside a (BSD-3-licensed) shared object library, for which source code is not provided.

They provide BSD-3-licensed Python files but the interesting bit happens in the shared object library, which is only provided in binary form (but is also BSD-3-licensed it seems, so you can distribute it freely).

Since it is under the BSD 3 licence, users would also be permitted to decompile and modify the shared object under the licence terms.

Nice insight!