Wait isn't Spring Framework all under "Apache License 2.0", so anyone could fork it and use it? Why wouldn't there be a group other than Broadcom contributing updates and providing support?
You can absolutely try. There are companies which provide support for out of support frameworks like Angular 1.
In reality there’s not enough Spring committers who don’t work for Broadcom for it to happen widely. (Also Broadcom has other options, eg follow Elastic and Cockroach Labs and change license.)
If you’re a senior dev, you need to be commercially astute — like finance folk can read balance sheets, you should be able to glean commercial implications from a project’s commit history.
PS. I’m a big fan of ensuring engineers get paid. If you actively choose to use Spring, buy a darn support contract and support its development. Given how many of you are on Spring 5.x or earlier even now, you’ll have to do so anyway if you want sec fixes. It’s a bit late to be looking for options in the short to medium term.
