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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by 2Gkashmiri on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:47AM (#25032701)
What about actually including a clause about pushing your changes upstream because from my recent HN readings, that clause is not present.
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by wolfgke on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:05AM (#25032823)
The source code has to be provided. From this, one can easily generate a diff. The only thing that such a clause will do is having to inform the original maintainer of this.

But I don't think that such a clause is a good idea: very often these internal modifications are not of the required quality. Also, I can easily imagine that some projects might drown in low-quality upstream pushes.

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by 2Gkashmiri on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:06AM (#25032830)
Bug fixes is what I am thinking about.
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by wolfgke on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:10AM (#25032856)
It is often not clear what is a bug and what is "unexpected/surprising (but 'correct') behavior". Also, many bug fixes of authors that don't have a good understanding of the code cause lots of additional regressions or don't fit the original architecture of the software well.