> people will never track down all the OSS projects they depend on and figure what would be a reasonable donation to give them. Too much agency is required of the user to achieve meaningful adoption.
Yes! This gets at the B2B question mentioned elsewhere on this thread. At Gratipay, we're working on integrating package managers to help with aggregation. We've already loaded up all npm packages with stubbed out pages like:
https://gratipay.com/on/npm/express/
Now we're working on adding the ability for package maintainers to easily claim their packages on Gratipay, and then companies can upload a package.json or something and give a chunk of money to their entire dependency chain. Happening here: