A) There are license restrictions. Read them. You have to publicize any changes you make to the source code.
Basically people always want improvement and you can join groups to improve programs that you use or create. Most are in a group because large programs take time to develop. One in particular is Eclipse. That took over 10 years and is still being improved on a daily basis.
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