User story

• As a WiX maintainer, the Open Source Maintenance Fee provides funding for ongoing maintenance tasks that would ensure the long-term sustainability of the WiX Toolset.

Proposal

Open Source Maintenance Fee Introduction

To ensure the long-term sustainability of this project, we are introducing an Open Source Maintenance Fee. This fee is required to be paid by all consumers of the WiX Toolset project who generate revenue. You can pay via GitHub Sponsors.

We plan to enforce the maintenance fee starting with the release of WiX v6.0 on April 5th, 2025. At that time, a EULA on binary releases (including those published to GitHub and NuGet.org) requires payment of the Maintenance Fee.

Please see the Open Source Maintenance Fee for more information.

Steps to complete:

• Get final EULA from lawyers
• Add EULA to .nupkgs
• Sign up for GitHub Sponsorship and create the tiers:
  • Small organization (< 20 people): $10/mo
  • Medium organization (20-100 people): $40/mo
  • Large organization (> 100 people): $60/mo
• Update README

Note: Customers of WiX Developer Direct do NOT need to pay the Open Source Maintenance Fee, as it is included as part of their support agreement.

Considerations

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