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Warehouse (https://github.com/pypi/warehouse) uses the Apache 2.0 License, I wonder how easy it would be to set up a PaaS company to do this.
> There needs to be some extra step, be it a fee, identity confirmation, manual moderation/approval, or something else. I'm sure the PyPA devs/maintainers have ideas.

When I was younger, I always thought computing was so incredibly cool, because me, just some blind kid in Florida, could contribute and make things and share things and just ...participate. I would talk to friends trying to go in to other careers, and excitedly talk about what I was working on and be curious why they never did anything related to what they wanted to do when they grew up.

Now, I understand how this comes about, bit by bit, with the best of intentions.

And I hate it.

Please, just no. If you want to set up a corporate only, super-sekret clubhouse of a PyPi that only the authorized developers can push to, well, the source code for PyPi is right here[0]! And here's Stripe[1]! But please don't break even more of the open, free Internet that I grew up with, I'm pleading with you.

[0]: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse

[1]: https://dashboard.stripe.com/register

Perhaps that'll be a future blog post. Also, https://github.com/pypi/warehouse seems a good place to start.
If you have some substantive insight about the code in https://github.com/pypi/warehouse please post your ideas in https://pypi.org/help/#feedback ;-)