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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by MaxBarraclough on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:44PM (#25945529)
> If the software otherwise does what you want, but you need some particular change, fork away.

You'll then have to maintain the fork, re-applying your changes whenever the upstream repo is updated

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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by type0 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:43PM (#25949735)
It might not work with big projects but libraries and other smaller software is perfectly fine.
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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by jerf on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:17PM (#25948411)
Obviously, one needs to be judicious with this.
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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by dialamac on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:34PM (#25946578)
Microsoft or Oracle will be glad to sell you something then. Geeze the babies around here.. not every project maintainer is going to agree with you as was apparently the crux of the original complaint. You don’t always get your way. And Apparently just having the ability to fork the source and do whatever the fuck you want is not enough for these pratts.
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