Polly .NET Library Introduces $20/Month Maintenance Fee for Commercial Users

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Polly, a widely used .NET resilience library, has announced an Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF) as a new approach to funding long-term project sustainability. Under the model, companies earning at least $20,000 from products that use Polly will be required to pay $20 per month per organization for access to maintained releases. The source code will remain under its existing open-source license, meaning the project is not moving to a commercial or dual-licensing model. Fees are collected through GitHub Sponsors, and other open-source projects can adopt the OSMF framework with their own custom pricing tiers. The initiative reflects a broader industry conversation about how open-source maintainers can secure ongoing funding without converting their projects into paid products.

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