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Am I allowed to make a subscription url publically available? Say I write a package which has a paywalled package as a dependency. If I want to publish MY package freely on npm under an MIT license, can I pay the subscription fee and commit the resulting fetch-url with my license key into github, and transitivly allow users of my package to use the paywalled package?

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If the transitive project's owner agrees to letting anyone use your license key freely, we can certainly do this.

However I recommend setting up your own project on GitRoyalty since we automatically replace your license key with a bundle identifier (i.e. bundle:<repo>). This way, before users can download your project, we confirm their IP addresses are associated with active subscriptions to all your transitive dependencies.

I wrote a bit more about transitive dependencies here: https://gitroyalty.com/docs/faq/how-do-transitive-dependenci...

I hope not. That would go against this project's purpose of trying to find a funding model for popular, transitively-used packages.

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