Devil’s Advocate - it’s not their job to educate themselves about the vagrancies of open source, it’s the developer’s (or more accurately tech lead’s) job to educate them about the particulars of a project, to prove that the project is healthy with good support today and will be healthy with good support tomorrow.
Without those assurances, and without investigating the project myself, I’d probably turn it down too.
Without those assurances, and without investigating the project myself, I’d probably turn it down too.