Developers will still have to pay $99 per year to participate in the WebOS developer program. This will be required regardless of whether the developer makes software available through the App Catalog or through other channels. As a gesture in „appreciation of what the open source movement has contributed to the web,“ Palm says that it will waive the fee for developers who are making open source software available for WebOS.

Damit werden die Betreiber kleiner Projekte, die ihre Software sowieso kostenlos oder gegen geringe Gebühr anbieten würden, motiviert ihre Entwicklung gleich unter eine freie Lizenz zu stellen.