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> One happens to be heavily used

This does not matter in the slightest; your only obligations to other entities are self-imposed. Using a developer's piece of code does not confer an additional right to that developer's time.

> The bad parts are that there’s a dozen issues that I haven’t even reviewed much less triaged, investigated, and fixed

If those 3/4 million downloaders really found it that useful, aren't there code contributions?

> time = passion + money

I didn't _start_ writing code because of money, and I'd still be writing code on my own even if I weren't being paid to do it. I know this because I code on my own without being paid to do it, only work on things that are interesting to me, and I don't have a problem dropping a project if I'm no longer interested in it.

> Those companies in that list are contributing to the success of those projects

Go work for one of those companies then? Seems like a win-win.




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