Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary. This has generated a fair amount of concern among some developers who highlight the future legal and technical issues this may pose, along with a potential for supply chain attacks.
The right to fork the project is granted to anyone by the creater of the project (who by the way is not the current maintainer).
Calling a fork “project hijacking” means the person granting the right by license was acting dishonesty to begin with, wich makes me question who is acting in bad faith. Being able to modify and redistribute open source code are elemental freedoms the FOSS community thrives on. These freedoms do not mandate any reason and they certainly don’t legitimise anyones judgement.