or there’s a clause that says it must be included with incompatibly licensed software, in which case it’s parasitic: someone could still clone my library, replace the dependency that uses your license with some other library that doesn’t - remove the parasite, so to speak. In the latter case, I could still BSD-3 Clause or MIT my library, with a big ol’ warning in the README about your license and the implications.

A clause for being included with incompatibly licensed software would likely be my preference given the other doesn't have more support. My first impression is that having people use it is more important. A goal of the license being to make it overwhelming to escape because it is everywhere.

It does have to be careful to not be exploitable. I know in this post, there's already been mentions of using revenue instead of income. I am aware, and in the past I have seen posts on reddit about actors who were denied pay in the millions because of creative accounting. (and probably also due to them not consulting a lawyer before signing)

Lawyers are probably the best positioned to give advice.

I'm not searching for advice yet, I'm just interested in understanding what others want in a license still. A lawyer will be necessary for being confident that a license is enforceable.

I like the distribution to set group sizes. I dislike royalties directly to a nonprofit, I have doubts about the people who will show up the moment it's managing billions of dollars in royalties.

I think revenue seems easier to enforce too. Just revenue didn't really make sense in the context of what I was doing, as people are writing contracts that handle millions of dollars and collecting like less than half of a percent. It's just confusing. It does make sense when the business is creating iOS or Android Apps and selling digital items, etc. I think the license could be restricted to business category, it's just more to consider, and a lawyer would probably really understand it.

I'm not exactly sure what is meant by investment valuation tests. As an example, is the investment valuation supposed to be something like "the financial contribution to this repository cannot be more than 5x the estimated cost to contract the entire source code by a reputable institution?"

Oh. I thought “it” was your software project.

Yes, I want to use a custom license for my project.

I've also wanted for a while to create some type of distributed royalty license, but the level of effort I want to put into that is just dependent upon how much potential there is for it to be successful. I haven't decided on what I will do yet for my own project. I think the main issue is it's just difficult to find terms that are not hard to understand and people readily support.