Given all the efforts to produce SBOMs, it would be really nice if companies used them to pay a tithe to their dependencies. None will, of course, because companies love getting all that software for free.
"Instead of scanning for copyright notices and license texts yourself, just sponsor us on GitHub and get access to always up-to-date SBOM information by the people who really know what‘s inside“.
If you give your work away for free you cannot expect to get paid for it.
For people who deal with intractible logic all day it's amusing how much these simple facts fail to get through their thick skulls.
That’s not really a reasonable position. Nobody signs up for maintaining a library that most of the Internet depends upon with megacorps beating down their doors for an unpaid P0 fix. “They gave it away for free” doesn’t mean they are your eternal slave.