> For example, in your example of "inserting two mandatory ads to be watched during each Java compiler run It wasn't a serious example. But if tomorrow Oracle

> For example, in your example of "inserting two mandatory ads to be watched during each Java compiler run It wasn't a serious example. But if tomorrow Oracle decided to monetize Java (which they have for LTS) there is little you could do. > I'm not sure what the "average open-source project" is. Look at Github. Take several random non-fork repos. It's most likely a lib written and maintained by 1-3 people, where last update was 4 years ago.