One option is building an open source framework to be the base for your commercial projects. Rails and Django started this way. What XChat does is charge for t

One option is building an open source framework to be the base for your commercial projects. Rails and Django started this way. What XChat does is charge for the official Windows binary[1] while being open source. I think something like this would be a good option for Zed. [1] http://xchat.org/windows/ http://xchat.org/windows/