On: The Community Corrosive Effects of CLAs (2021)

[danuker]

You can fork the project and ONLY publish your contribution with the public license (i.e. GPL) instead of agreeing to also cede rights to the company.

One problem is discoverability. GitHub lists forks in an un-sort-able manner.

[RobotToaster → danuker]

>One problem is discoverability. GitHub lists forks in an un-sort-able manner.

This obviously doesn't solve the problem generally, but I recently found an extension called lovely-forks[1], that automatically shows the most starred fork for every github repository.

1:https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks