

If it has been downloaded over 1.7 million times you need to contact Github about this, since it is an open source project that people are depending on, and discuss your github action usage with them and determine a path forward for continuing to use github actions
This is the same as people who don’t want to pay artists for their work and just say they get paid in “exposure”
If you are using open source as a company, you should pay the maintainers money, either through hiring them or directly funding the development.
I donate money to the pieces of software I use every day, because I’m in a position as an individual to, but there are lots of companies that are free riding