Comment by kamray23

That is exactly why I said that that only comes in once you publish something. The legal argument isn't as strong as the moral one is for me anyway, I never publish anything. I think making a PR isn't forcing code on someone, they're not obligated by anything to read and consider it, but if they do want to they can. I'll make one, and then I'll stop responding, because that's where my personal moral obligation ends. Whoever wants the code can now easily discover it, whoever doesn't can throw it away as they like. Including the upstream maintainer.