[zackmorris]

I wish we had a license like "this project merely extends the project it's based on to add features and fix bugs". So that we could justify immediately switching to the fork that solves our immediate problem.

When OSS first got big in the 90s, I thought that it was a free-for-all where anyone could contribute (no maintainers/PRs/MRs) and people would use the most popular branch. That way it would evolve freely at lightspeed to go around 500 pound gorillas like Microsoft.

Imagine my disappointment when we ended up with the same old gatekeeping, now we just police ourselves.

[blharr]

That license IS any copy left license, but nobody will trust a random fork is my understanding.

I can agree though that the network effect of "everyone else uses X" is pretty unfortunate and has led to a lot of other issues too, so yes very disappointing

[hannasanarion]

"I can go use whatever fork already exists that solves my problem" is great right up until you have two problems.

[Ferret7446]

Make your own fork and cherrypick/merge the fixes you need