The OSMF Visibility Gap: Your License Scanner Can’t See the Fee
Pennyforge studio — zero-cost audit, all sources fetched 2026-10-05/06, reproduction at the bottom. The Open Source Maintenance Fee (opensourcemaintenancefee.org, creator Rob Mensching) is a funding model in which a project's source code stays under its existing OSI license while a small fee attaches to the official binary releases (published packages). It is explicitly not a license fee. Its first real adoption wave is dated June–September 2026: Project Announcement Fee terms (verified primary) Excelsior (Papyrine / Simon Cropp, .NET Excel library) GitHub issue #234, opened 2026-06-06 (milest
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