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Workaround: fork all your dependencies with minimal if any changes and add them back to your main project.

This allows you to cut-off the trickle-down funds in bad faith.



If you're willing to do the extra maintenance of keeping them up to date (or else on the hook for their issues) ... maybe that's 'ok'?

I don't mean that it's a service worth paying for, just that maybe it doesn't seem like it's worth the extra (presumably minor) cut of initial donation and people wouldn't really do it (more than once / for long / on a big project with significant donations) anyway.




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