It's probably a single dev that made the decision, then moves onto something else. They (probably?) don't have the ability to just raise a recurring PO etc to easily pay you and don't care enough to worth through the paperwork.
If you had a paid licencing model they may have done it, or just found another lib/ wrote their own.
they just send a OTP to your email with the idea that you should be keeping your email secure (and that email providers are more secure than they can be)
yeh, thats what I mean, who knows what the state of the market will be in 25 years, unless its an insurance backed guarantee, be very suspicious of it.
I thought this was meant to be the difference between biodegradable and compostable?
Biodegradable will degrade in an industrial composter, compostable will do so in the compost bin in your back garden.
Pay/reg walled from the article so didn't actually read it....