Is this just who contributes on github? There is more to open source than just contributing on github. Also, just because you open sourced a piece of code, does

Is this just who contributes on github? There is more to open source than just contributing on github. Also, just because you open sourced a piece of code, does that really justify it to be open source on the same level as gcc? or some other largely adopted project? I could open source lots of random things but if no one is using them then one could argue it isn't a contribution.