[maxdemarzi]

Have you considered a different solution to credibility?

Like charging for an open source commercial license for "embedded" use only and you retain the rights to be the sole general api provider?

[gabelerner]

I was thinking that if it doesn't take off, I'd just release the whole thing as an open source project since most of the work did not come from writing the code, but rather acquiring and maintaining the list of institutions, servers to query, and eventually websites to scrape.

From your idea, perhaps I can release the code completely free (or small one time fee) but charge for use of my up to date databases. Thanks for the help!