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I think it might be more productive to think of it being available on a sliding scale of "payment", where it's possible and allowable to give nothing back. We recognise that there are extremely valid reasons somebody might just download and use a tool without any further interaction with the community surrounding the tool.
Their binary opposition between "legal" and "illegal" doesn't really describe FOSS and involves coercive state power. I specifically avoid that model.