Royalty Source License

Open source maintainers have to eat too.

Big companies often take open code, build closed products, and profit — leaving maintainers to fund and support the project alone. The Redis situation is just one example.

We propose a fair model: if you fork the code, close the source, and make serious money from it, part of those profits should go back into the original project.

This only kicks in when value is extracted privately — unlike BSL or Fair License, which block usage entirely. Our goal isn’t to restrict, but to sustain.

Let’s keep open source open, but also fair.