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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by ghaff on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:46PM (#25950614)
> a tacit commitment from the project maintainer to maintain my changes into the future

Sometimes. Depends on the norms of the project. Depends on the scope of the changes.

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Re:Open-source, not open-contribution by AmericanChopper on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:55PM (#25950711)
Of course. A lot of the time there’s not even a commitment that the project isn’t going to be entirely abandoned at some point in the future. But if you make your improvements available for other people to benefit from, you’re greatly increasing the chances that other people are also going to help maintain them (or maybe just devote some effort to avoid breaking them).
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