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• 2026-08-29

  Fences: a BSD-3-Clause community fork of Polly ships to NuGet

  After opening a "Forking Polly" discussion on 18 August 2026, Ian Cooper and the Brighter Command team published Fences — a fork of Polly 8.7.0 that keeps the BSD-3-Clause terms and carries no maintenance-fee EULA. Packages ship under the Paramore.Fences.* prefix (9.0.0 stable on 29 August 2026) and the v8-era API mirrors Polly's exactly. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by App vNext.polly
• 2026-08-29

  Coding Bolt: The Polly Drama Explained

  A walkthrough of the reaction to Polly's Open Source Maintenance Fee. The argument made is that the $20/month is not the real cost — the friction is legal review, procurement and dependency-policy overhead once commercial terms enter the dependency tree. Covers the Fences fork and the .NET Foundation's clarification that consumers must review terms beyond the source license.polly
• 2026-08-29

  Renato Golia: Free software never promised free labour

  Golia argues an open source license is a backward-looking promise about code already published, not a commitment to perpetual free maintenance — which is why fee models that leave existing releases untouched sit differently from retroactive relicensing. Draws parallels with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and Redis/Valkey alongside the AutoMapper, MediatR and Polly changes.pollyautomappermediatr
• 2026-08-21

  Aaron Stannard: The .NET OSS Relicensing Panic Is an Incentives Problem

  Aaron Stannard argues the wave of .NET relicensing is a predictable market outcome of misaligned incentives rather than a crisis: maintainers carry enterprise-grade expectations on volunteer funding. His advice to commercial users is to sponsor critical dependencies proactively and become customers rather than free consumers, citing Polly and Verify as the current flashpoints and IdentityServer as a relicensing that worked out commercially.pollyverifyidentityserver
• 2026-08-19

  .NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance Fees

  The .NET Foundation published a statement and FAQ on maintenance-fee models, declining to take a position for or against them. Foundation projects may adopt OSMF-style funding provided the source stays freely available under a permissive license, anyone can build equivalent artifacts themselves, and mandatory dependencies remain permissively licensed. Consumers are urged to read the terms attached to packages, not just the source license.pollyverifynpoiwix-toolset
• 2026-08-06

  Verify adopts the Open Source Maintenance Fee

  Simon Cropp announced that Verify is moving to the Open Source Maintenance Fee model. The source stays MIT, but versions released after 1 September 2026 (v33+) carry an OSMF EULA and a local build-time SponsorCheck. Revenue-generating organizations above $10k — and all government agencies — are expected to sponsor VerifyTests at $5–$100/month by size tier.verify
• 2026-07-14

  Introducing the Open Source Maintenance Fee for Polly

  The Polly team announced that Polly is adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee model, effective 16 November 2026. The BSD-3-Clause source license is unchanged, but NuGet packages released from that date add an OSMF clause: organizations earning at least $20,000 from products that depend on Polly directly are expected to pay $20/month via GitHub Sponsors. Transitive use via Microsoft.Extensions.*.Resilience is exempt.polly
• 2026-04-10

  What's New in NPOI 2.8.0: A New Chapter for Sustainable Open Source

  Maintaining an open-source project relied upon by countless independent developers and enterprise giants requires an immense amount of time and resources. To ensure NPOI continues to grow and remains secure for the long term, version 2.8.0 introduces the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF) model. NSax was also removed to resolve the earlier LGPL-3.0 licensing conflict.npoi
• 2026-02-04

  Open Source Maintenance Fee v1.1

  The OSMF EULA is updated to v1.1, adding a minimum annual revenue threshold of US $10,000 before the maintenance fee applies — explicitly exempting hobbyists and very small organizations from the WiX Toolset fee.wix-toolset
• 2026-01-15

  json-everything introduces a mandatory maintenance fee

  Greg Dennis announced that the json-everything suite (~40 packages including JsonSchema.Net, JsonPath.Net and JsonPatch.Net) is adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee, effective 1 February 2026. The MIT source is unchanged; an EULA on the binary releases requires revenue-generating organizations above $10k to pay from $10/month via GitHub Sponsors, covering the whole suite.json-everything