I have no problem with your use of YOUR license, when it's s/w you created and even though I would not follow your example -- making someone else's script into (persistent) binary -- I don't think that's illegal (in most cases depending on the exact content of the trial license, at which point I throw up my hands, saying 'IANAL') but neither does that comport with my notion of ethical conduct. And I don't have a problem recognizing that YMMV on the presence or absence of ethical issues.

But, I do have a problem with someone (yep, the OP) who appears to be skating around common trial version restrictions and is now asking PM to help him evade payment for a commercial version.

(Besides, given the categorical denial that your conduct is piracy or theft, I have to wonder if you missed a key modifier: "tantamount to....")