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by immibis 675 days ago
You are welcome to choose that, but in my opinion, it isn't open source. I think open source should means anyone can contribute or take, and contributions are shared, without undue discrimination. Nobody is forced to work on the project, but if they are then they have to give the results of their work back to the common pool they took from. You have just as much power to keep the project going as anyone else does, including the current "maintainer".
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> but if they are then they *have to* give the results of their work back to the common pool they took from

Well, here we go. Your "open" isn't so open in the end.

"open is when you have the right to make it closed"