[rndhouse]

Honestly, your comment is the most useful I've had so far.

I agree with what you've said. I don't expect any company to pay anyone with PayPal, BTC (or even lightning, can you imagine!), but I want to leave the door open for that.

Proper invoicing is key. And I think I can avoid the "kingmakes" problem you've mentioned.

The longer term view that I have includes a payment portal service. A company would submit a report (via the openfare tool) of the OpenFare licensed dependencies that they use. The service will then invoice them and facilitate a single lump sum charge via Stripe (credit card) or similar. Then forward to the developers or refund.

I think I can avoid the "kingmakes" problem because of the following: anyone could start a OpenFare payment portal. The OpenFare licensed dependencies report could be sent to anyone.