Give the choice between “give us what we want with no come back and we'll use what we want and give nothing back” and “don't give us what we want, and we'll go away and leave you alone”, I'll take option two. I get nothing either way
This seems less fitting if it's true that what you're "giving" is some React bindings, and what they have to "give back" is their entire frontend application.
They don't have to give back if they don't use those bindings. They could use someone else's, or write their own.
They could also try negotiate an alternate arrangement, some authors may be willing to do that (assuming they have relevant permission from other contributors if it isn't a solo project, of course).
The example you give seems to be the unreasonable one IMO: “our thing is bigger, so we expect to use your smaller thing how we want”.
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This seems less fitting if it's true that what you're "giving" is some React bindings, and what they have to "give back" is their entire frontend application.
They don't have to give back if they don't use those bindings. They could use someone else's, or write their own.
They could also try negotiate an alternate arrangement, some authors may be willing to do that (assuming they have relevant permission from other contributors if it isn't a solo project, of course).
The example you give seems to be the unreasonable one IMO: “our thing is bigger, so we expect to use your smaller thing how we want”.