[zaphar]

That's silly. Leveldb is totally open source in every sense of the word. Just because you want to customize it in a way they didn't originally customize it doesn't mean they are "pretending" open source. The fact that they are allowed to customize it in their own custom fork is largely because google is not "pretending".

There are plenty of reasons to ignore patches from outside that are completely valid. Google gets to decide the direction of their fork of leveldb. If a patch doesn't fit that direction they are under no obligation to accept it.

It's not madness for Riak to want a divergent version of a package. Nor is it madness for the package maintainer not to desire to take that package in the direction that Riak wants to. This is why there we have forks in the first place and it's perfectly fine.

In short. No it doesn't equally apply to the Riak guy. The package is responsible for cutting boundaries in the proper place if they don't want to do the work investingating that then they shouldn't package it.