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		IggleSniggle on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own s... I’m with you on that one, but if you are literally just forking a package, rather than depending on a package, and rebranding it into your ecosystem, then a big “thank you for making this and making it open source” is appropriate.

BeetleB on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

> then a big “thank you for making this and making it open source” is appropriate.

As is not doing it.

Perhaps you did not mean to use the word "appropriate"?

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