Yes, of course - happy to discourse further. tyler at wso2 dot com. In seeing your response, it does occur to me that you may be tackling an alternative form

Yes, of course - happy to discourse further. tyler at wso2 dot com. In seeing your response, it does occur to me that you may be tackling an alternative form of monetization that is suitable for micro-payments, or for open source project leaders that do not desire to oversee the more traditional commercial business aspects that you must under take to monetize a project. These are things such as support, consulting, and training. There is an investment (sweat, not monetary) that goes into thinking about how to deliver such services, meeting an SLA, and whether there are associated assets that must be created to support such a delivery. This is a lot of effort and maybe not commensurate with the time or objectives of the OSS developer. There is also the challenge of commercially transacting on such alternative forms of monetization (or value added software that is proprietary). So while these are profitable endeavors, there are any number of reasons that it may not be interesting to pursue them. It may not have to do with size of the project, but of the cost to pursue the alternative monetization strategy. So in that case, it may be interesting for a project to have different forms of licensing at different phases of development that are more conducive to either micro-monetization or classic-monetization, for which WSO2 falls into. And so perhaps it benefits us all to think of licensing for monetization as a spectrum to be applied given the objectives of the project leaders.