[dragonwriter]

So the great new idea is:

(1) Proprietary license with annual term, annual mandatory customer audits, and customer revenue-based payment,

(2) Massive bundling so it would all be under one license and payment,

(3) Automated, “git depository”-based determination of revenue sharing to contributors,

(4) Despite #2, multiple different companies involved in actually taking and redistributing payment.

Whose problems is this solving? It’s not solving real user problems (except maybe for some large enterprises, where the added annual fee might be worth the supposedly simplified compliance, though I don’t actually see that this offers necessarily offers simplified compliance.) It’s not solving the problems of the VC-funded startups that have been complaining about not being able to make money off open source. I don’t think its really solving individual developer payment issues better than users with substantial interest paying developers directly for work that those users are interested in and/or supporting foundations backing projects of interest.