The author wrote explicitly that they want to be compensated because they spent weekends writing the thing.
Any customer support that has to do with payments and license checks doesn't count.
Once you have a community of interested folks then fixing security issues and keeping things up to date is much easier. If there isn't enough interest then there isn't much of a monetizeable customer base anyway. It's self-regulating.
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The author wrote explicitly that they want to be compensated because they spent weekends writing the thing.
Any customer support that has to do with payments and license checks doesn't count.
Once you have a community of interested folks then fixing security issues and keeping things up to date is much easier. If there isn't enough interest then there isn't much of a monetizeable customer base anyway. It's self-regulating.