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It would be great if all open source required payment of at least 1 dollarcent for enterprises, to make sure the purchase accounting layers are working in case anyone wants to send more money.

For 1 cent, we can still call it "free" even as in beer, the amount is small enough for that to be fair.

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And if the penny isn't paid, no source? Then it's not open source. And practically speaking, no one will pay that.

If the penny isn't paid, they can still have the source.

But their legal department will have a problem.

I hope you understand the point now.

Going after them with legal claims is an odd definition of "can".

Nobody is going after them.

And remember this is only for enterprises.

This does require large players acting in good faith.

Or, at best, competently.

Sometimes both of those, or neither, are in evidence.

But I like the way you think. Make it a contract performance issue for legal teams to police internally.

And in order to pay that 1 cent, you have to pay 23 cents or so to a payment processor.

It's only for enterprises. They should have no problem with that.

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