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===== Traditional licenses are: =====
* MIT / BSD / Apache – free for everyone, forever, no revenue awareness, no anti-monopoly teeth.
* GPL-style – focused on source-sharing and copyleft, not on revenue tiers or market power.

The OLL builder lets you ship something different:
# Free-tier by design - You set the revenue cap where use is totally free (e.g. $6M). Below that, anyone can build on your tech with no fees.
# Grace zone for growing companies - Between your free cap and grace cap (e.g. $6–10M), they can keep using it while they talk to you about a commercial license.
# Paid only when they’re clearly successful - Above the grace cap, a commercial license is required—by that point they’re not a fragile startup anymore.
# Anti-monopoly guardrails - You can set a BigCo threshold (e.g. $1B) where extra rules apply: no exclusive licenses, no shell companies to dodge caps, no using your tech to lock out competitors.

So the pitch to other developers is:

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