[specialist]

I keep floating the idea of royalties.

FOSS purists object, leading to the libre vs gratis rabbit hole.

I'm now revisiting Hintjens' (ZeroMQ) advice around trademarks and licensing.

Maybe there's an angle around trademarks. Like maybe you can call your fork "SuperWidget™ compatible", for a fee.

Dual licensing seems obvious. But maybe we need some new revenue sharing licenses better suited for cloud providers and SAAS. (A life time ago, I used libraries in my shrink-wrap. So negotiating price feels familiar to me.)

Libraries kinda "feel" like music sampling. So I've been skim reading how that world handles royalties. I like that they have boilerplate for all the most common scenarios.

I'm also alert to case studies and financial reports about existing efforts, successful, failed, or otherwise. This solution to funding might just be as simple as mimicking success.