Yarr, for sure the other thing is, that she is already selling a lot of her basic designs relatively dirt cheap. So a large licensed run might be able to work, but for a small DIYer to actually produce a short run, with the licensing fee added, it seems quite likely that the random DIYer would actually have to charge more than the "real deal" Devi Ever stuff goes for.
I suspect that maybe she is just tired of doing full production, and maybe is seeking a more passive sort of income source from designs that she no longer really cares to build?
But for sure, the designs that folks are IMO most likely to build, are going to be those oddfuzzes. And those designs are generally pretty simple, fairly widely known, and really not worth very much money(relatively, compared to some of the properly big money builders like Zvex) once built.
Actually as i mention him, Vex, for instance could probably get away with licensing agreements a bit more successfully than i would expect it to go for Devi. In a way Zvex already does this with the Vexter series. Just, they produce those themselves, don't have to pay a licensing fee, and just benefit from sort of outsourcing their designs kind of to... themselves, for a lower pricepoint without the fancy handmade/handpainted vibe.
That, strikes me as a cleverer way to approach this sort of thing. But definitely not a passive way to get income from the designs. I don't think that a passive way exists that would function very well. Surely it would already be very popular amongst hack DIYers if it did. Folks who are that type of lazy, tend to be weirdly resourceful in sniffing out this sort of shortcut if this sort of shortcut is actually available.
