> If log4j2 is responsible for your company's success, you have a moral obligation to donate to the person who creates this library thanklessly. That's a big i

> If log4j2 is responsible for your company's success, you have a moral obligation to donate to the person who creates this library thanklessly. That's a big if, log4j is a logging library after all. This is an understandable position to hold for other types of dependencies (think react, database, UI components etc.) but the logging library is very far down in the ordered set of projects I'd donate to. I will however leave a mark and donate to the top 3 dependencies I consider most important in my (non-java) side project. Edited to add: If you offer your software at no charge, you shouldn't be surprised if people accept that offer. So I even disagree with the "moral obligation" bit. Doesn't mean that donating is a bad thing, however.