No, an author/maintainer is free to do as they see fit. If they don't want to merge your PR, that is their choice. If you don't agree with that choice, you are

No, an author/maintainer is free to do as they see fit. If they don't want to merge your PR, that is their choice. If you don't agree with that choice, you are free to clone/fork the project and merge the PR there. No one -- even the author/maintainer -- is stopping you and they have, in fact, granted you the permission to do exactly that (via their choice of an OSS license). This is core to open source. See gumby's e-mail about this from 1997: https://gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html https://gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html