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by Snetry 1615 days ago
> And quite distasteful when many people have collaborated on your software. If you deserve some compensation, what about all of them? Will you share whatever you earn from it?

Most contributions are from drive by contributor's that may not even use the project.

Neither those nor the maintainer are entitled to compensation, but open source is a cruel environment where people want to use what you made but they wouldnt give you a dime unless they had to