Comment by Aurornis
17 hours ago
This is an edge case in OSS. Even among software packages used by Netflix and Amazon, few of them were attributable to a single maintainer or small group of individuals. They've long since become community developed projects.
Netflix and Amazon use many packages of all sizes. And contributions to projects with many contributors helped people get jobs.
How would you even know that Netflix or Amazon uses your package?
Their open source software depended on or derived from your package. They included your copyright notice with software they distributed. Someone contributed code. Someone reported a bug. Someone requested a feature. Someone mentioned it at a conference. I could continue.