Comment by karmakaze

I don't agree with this formulation of the problem nor the proposed solution space. The cost/price angle might be useful to solve other problems though.

Publishing opensource to a package repository should have higher hurdles than picking a LICENSE file and pushing code to Github. Java/Maven repos typically have higher quality because to get code there, you have to have a domain, register it and get through the packaging requirements/bureaucracy. The use of packages from Github with merely a repo/git-hash is a bad trend. On the other side, if everything had a visible price/cost, then we might not end up with simple functions being overused and compromise a library ecosystem.