As far as I know, Debian does not ship WiringPI. Debian does not even have an official RPi image. What has any Debian maintainer to do with this?
As sole copyright holder, the author is also legally allowed to do whatever the hell they want with it.
> How are users supposed to react ... Answers: 1) fork the project, and do a better job yourself 2) suck it up quietly
As far as I know, Debian does not ship WiringPI. Debian does not even have an official RPi image. What has any Debian maintainer to do with this?
As sole copyright holder, the author is also legally allowed to do whatever the hell they want with it.
> How are users supposed to react ... Answers: 1) fork the project, and do a better job yourself 2) suck it up quietly