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Let the maintainer monetize release versions. If new releases have major contributions from others, charge for the new release and dole out funds to the contributors.

Certainly some thought needs to be put into how to monetize this, but we haven’t ever even tried. I’d say something like NPM is sort of like how Uber/Lyft built and validated the ride sharing infrastructure - it works, it’s normalized. Now how do you manage the money between the drivers and riders.

It’s not like software devs and companies are broke and are unwilling to pay modest amounts, and we will always support free for non-commercial.