> You are free to fork it, fix the corruption issue and uphold the social contract of your fork. The freedom to fork (for any reason) is orthogonal to the ques

> You are free to fork it, fix the corruption issue and uphold the social contract of your fork. The freedom to fork (for any reason) is orthogonal to the question of whether the maintainer is being an asshole or not. Of course, people are also free to be assholes (for any reason). But it shouldn't be controversial to say "don't be an asshole".