Having a tarball of the source code for something isn't the same as having the community, the history, the culture, the processes, the infrastructure ... all th

Having a tarball of the source code for something isn't the same as having the community, the history, the culture, the processes, the infrastructure ... all the accumulated other stuff that makes up an open source project. Without the concentration of diverse efforts that go into maintaining and advancing a project, having the source code (alone) is of minimal benefit.