[joepie91_]

> * While this isn’t FOSS, it keeps the best parts of open source in place (open GitHub collaboration, permissive licensing) while incentivizing users to pay contributors

No, those aren't "the best parts of open source". The best part of open-source is building a collective public commons, which this model does not allow for.

[sdrzn]

GitRoyalty works for transitive dependencies as well (dependencies of dependencies) by ensuring users are subscribed to all transitive dependencies before installing the direct dependency. So in this way this model not only still allows building a collective public project, but also compensates each developer that's involved in it.