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What happens when an open source-project gets funding? How is the money distributed inside the project, among different contributors?


I added a footnote to address this. I admit I hadn't thought this bit out fully.

Basically there needs to be a mechanism by which the set of maintainers divvy up the money.

A pattern I expect will arise (actually it probably already exists): there can be different "contribution tiers", a fixed percentage of the proceeds go to each tier, for each tier the allocated percentage is be distributed evenly.


The same way it currently does, if they opt into GitHub sponsorship or another sponsorship system.




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