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- Related to above: In terms of monetization, I think there are multiple potential routes you could take while maintaining a fully open source project. 1) Charging for a hosted service while licensing code using a source-available now / open source later license such as the BSL to limit commercial competition (has a non-commercial clause but reverts to an open source license after a preset period of time) used by ZeroTier (see here). 2) Sponsorware such as is used by Material for MkDocs, where there is a private "premium version" where some of the big ticket new features land first but these features are gradually migrated to the publicly available open source project when different funding tiers are reached. 3) The Photoprism model where a certain small subset of "premium" features that are unlocked when a certain level of sponsorship is reached, but all the code (including the premium features) are included in the open project so if someone wants to go through the hassle of compiling it out themselves they are entitled to, but it takes a significant amount of effort (see this Twitter thread). 4) The HomeAssistant model of charging for a hosted service which manages paid connections to commercial entities to provide the service without the hassle of user setup (in the case of Nabu Casa, things like Google Assistant integration)
I have a repo that is archived now, but I did some brainstorming with some ideas before. You can check it out at https://github.com/jdogcoderarchives/sturdy-sniffle/issues
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