[amszmidt]

That assumes the maintainer wants to be paid. There are plenty of us who maintain FLOSS projects that do it for other reasons and any monetary exchange would burden us, since it might pressure one that this is now a job and you have to execute on tasks - there are enough headaches handling other things as it is.

[kamma4434]

Agreed - I already have a job where people come asking. If developing OSS came with obligations, I’d do something else instead.

[creato]

That’s of course a fine approach for you. I think a big part of the problem in this case is not with the maintainer, but with the critical software that took a dependency on this hobby project (in the maintainer’s own words).

[kamma4434]

Agreed.