You'd think so, but there's also a good chunk of copyleft code that's just "here's our source code, go figure out how to deploy lol". You can try to fork it in

You'd think so, but there's also a good chunk of copyleft code that's just "here's our source code, go figure out how to deploy lol". You can try to fork it into something workable, but that can sometimes literally mean trying to figure out what the actual deployment process is and what weird tweaks were done to the deploying device beforehand. In addition, forking those projects is also unworkable if the original has pretty much enterprise-speed development. At best you get a fork that's years out of date where the maintainer is nitpicking every PR and is burnt out enough to not make it worthwhile to merge upstream patches. At worst, you get something like Iceweasel[0] where someone just releases patches rather than a full fork (and having done that a few times, it's a pain in the neck to maintain those patches). FOSS isn't at all inherently community-minded; it can be and can facilitate it, but it can also be used as a way to get cheap cred from the people who are naïeve enough to believe the former is the only place it applies. [0]: "Fork" of Firefox LTS by the GNU Foundation to strip out trademarked names and logo's. It's probably one of their silliest projects in term of relevancy.