Open Source Software promulgated by GitHub is made commonly available in the form of actual source code.
If this code does not suit your needs, change it such that it does. We're all engineers/developers/coders/hackers with Top Notch Skills right?
Make a fix thats well thought out and well integrated, commit, pull request and hope the maintainer finds value in integrating your code into the next release.
Should you come across a maintainer that doesn't share your view of the issue and depending on licensing constraints simply maintain the code you were given for free on your own.
That or ... I dunno... Maybe pay someone? Venmo is a thing? Do you even Crypto bruh?
* I spent 5 years working for a company that successfully took this approach. Pre-GitHub of course.
If this code does not suit your needs, change it such that it does. We're all engineers/developers/coders/hackers with Top Notch Skills right?
Make a fix thats well thought out and well integrated, commit, pull request and hope the maintainer finds value in integrating your code into the next release.
Should you come across a maintainer that doesn't share your view of the issue and depending on licensing constraints simply maintain the code you were given for free on your own.
That or ... I dunno... Maybe pay someone? Venmo is a thing? Do you even Crypto bruh?
* I spent 5 years working for a company that successfully took this approach. Pre-GitHub of course.
* OP is totally on target.