"What about charging for build and distribution? Krita does something like this for their Steam and Windows Store versions, that helps finance their development

"What about charging for build and distribution? Krita does something like this for their Steam and Windows Store versions, that helps finance their development." Ardour[1] does this too, and from what I understand its lead developer manages to support himself from this. The Linux distribution that I use is Gentoo, and it has Ardour in its package repository, but that version is always old compared to the newest version of Ardour. So if I want the newest version I have to compile it myself (which I can and have done, as I have the technical expertise to follow their build instructions), but for others who want the latest pre-compiled and/or want to support Ardour's development, they can donate. There's also Harrison Mixbus[2], which is a commercial product built on top of Ardour by another company. [1] - https://ardour.org/ https://ardour.org/ [2] - https://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html https://harrisonconsoles.com/site/mixbus.html