..and further it is not possible to discern properly the relationship between a project and a contributor just because there is a time gap. If I wrote a project

..and further it is not possible to discern properly the relationship between a project and a contributor just because there is a time gap. If I wrote a project completely myself up to version 1.1 and then allowed other maintainers on to it who had taken it to version 1.2 I might feel I can merge whatever I like even after a gap. Not saying that is what happened here, just saying that it is impossible to discern from that discussion