Copyright law is pretty much same all across the Europe.
About your spelling - every single modern browser has spell check built in or has plugins available - it really helps to use them.
Author of these patches had to spend time making them instead of his normal summer job, pays for hosting and had plans to develop them further - so instead of getting some money from summer job he pays for hosting and all he gets is you calling him "selfish bastard".
So, now instead of some other features ( like mentioned eduroam support and other things ) community will get nothing, because i doubt anybody will be willing to develop it further just to be called "selfish bastard", developers deserve to get paid, and he was asking for *any* donation.