An interesting thought popped up to me earlier today as I was developing my project. My thought was whether I could charge royalties for a derivative (being used commercially) of my project. Would charging royalties allow my project to remain open?To help narrow this down:I don't want to know about things such as patents and trademarks. Licenses such as the CC0 (though not considered open source) explicitly have clauses on patents and trademarks, and they don't bring these two items into the license with everything else. In a sense, using CC0 patents/trademarks allows the original creator to legally demand royalties on patents and trademarks.I'm sorry if it was a little unclear, but here is my question:Can I [force] charge any royalties for derivatives of my open source project that are being used commercially?
Can I charge a royalty for derivatives of my project that are used commercially?
derivative works;royalties