[yellowapple]

> I’m going to assume you mean code that you created and chose to release as OSS.

It doesn't matter how the output is licensed; I'm paid for the process of creating that output, not for the perpetual profiting over that finite output. That's the point you're missing.

[Veen]

And how do the people who pay you to code make the money to pay you?

[yellowapple]

By performing the business processes which my code enables.

[SpelingBeeChamp]

Only because you agreed to that. No?