[pa7]

What would you suggest if your OS project was bound to MIT and there's no way of introducing a commercial license?

heatmap.js (my pet project) unfortunately has those constraints and I'm currently trying a mixed model of high priced premium support and donations.

Donations got me almost nothing, high priced premium support got me a few hundred dollars within a few weeks after I introduced it- more than I made the last 4 years with donations.

I'm also trying binpress as a secondary channel to sell support. will see how it performs over time, but binpress looks promising so far

[patio11]

Take two of your most commonly requested features which are only useful for enterprise users, add them to Heatmap.js Commercial, charge $500 a year for it, and promote Heatmap.js Commercial along with heatmap.js. I don't know what those features would be for heatmaps, but I strongly suspect it will sound like "integrates with ... out of the box."

Basically, wholesale clone sidekiq's model. They're also on MIT, and he does pretty well for himself.

[rmc]

You can still sell a MIT licenced version. It's just that, unlike the GPL, it's possible for someone to use it on (say) App Store without having to pay.