[Dylan16807]

It's very normal for packages to have donation requests, and for developer pages to have donation links.

The metaphorical sign does say take and leave, and the take vastly outweighs the leave.

> Again, if he wanted to make money from his software, he should've put it in the license and charged the big users for it.

A developer shouldn't have to ruin the open-source nature of the software to get there.

Maybe if we could invent some standardized almost-open-source license that doesn't terrify companies we could get there, but we can't even seem to define "commercial" in a way that doesn't break everything. Better still it would be nice if we could use social pressure to get companies to donate a small fraction of the money open source saves them.