He pretty clearly isn't, although he probably believes himself that he is. E.g. he claims about giflib: “This is the library that renders GIFs in your browser [

He pretty clearly isn't, although he probably believes himself that he is. E.g. he claims about giflib: “This is the library that renders GIFs in your browser […] Without it the modern Internet would be unrecognizable.” Except that no browser that I know of uses giflib (e.g. Chromium uses Skia's GIF decoder, which is WUFFS-based), and GIF clearly isn't an important format for the modern Internet anyway. Besides, giflib's latest release was in 2019, so how load-bearing is his maintainership anyway? Similarly, he somehow seems to believe Android uses his gpsd and thus is “essential for Google Maps”, and it hasn't done so for at _least_ ten years, if ever; it was in one vendor's third_party directory at some point, but I don't think it was ever in Android proper.