Wix: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee
9 months ago
- #Sustainability
- #Maintenance Fee
- #Open Source
- WiX Toolset introduces an Open Source Maintenance Fee for revenue-generating consumers to ensure project sustainability.
- Fee enforcement starts with WiX v6.0 release on April 5, 2025, via EULA on binary releases.
- Payment tiers via GitHub Sponsors: Small ($10/mo), Medium ($40/mo), Large ($60/mo) organizations.
- WiX Developer Direct customers exempt as fee is included in their support agreement.
- Steps include finalizing EULA, updating .nupkgs, setting up GitHub Sponsors tiers, and README updates.