The implication of an MIT license is that anyone can use or sell your work with attribution. If the contributor was not happy with that, or unhappy with getting

The implication of an MIT license is that anyone can use or sell your work with attribution. If the contributor was not happy with that, or unhappy with getting a free db worked on by other people, they simply wouldn't contribute. Since they did contribute on those terms, we have no reason to think they want to be paid. https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/master/LICENSE