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Love the idea, but for unreal engine 1% royalty is fair, you've built your entire product on it.

But what about 1% of revenue for a UX libary or database product from uber?

I'd say that the old elastic licence is great to standardise and so is the 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% or 2%; over a Million, 5 Million or 10 Million.

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Yeah you could definitely do smaller royalty rates or a step up fee schedule but I know SPDX isn't too keen on people dumping a thousand licenses at their feet to include and until you can easily plug in custom license parameters, I'm not sure if there is a better approach without absolutely blowing up the SBOM with custom licensure.

i mean, surely you can have tweak the license (i.e., have the wording be a "variable" which is set at the point of agreement).

It doesn't have to always be at 1%.

Ehh that's kind of the problem with using a SPDX license tag.

You could have a "negotiable" license as well but it becomes quickly non-trivial to document what the negotiated terms are in your SBOM.

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