You didn't have to remove the links!
It's just forks of active projects tend to cause confusion and support issues (if someone has a problem we need to know what particular version is being used).
I'm interested in the work you did with iptables, my solution in 1.7 is to enable promiscuous mode on wlan0 but yours might be better.
I'd appreciate it if you could explain your fix in a GitHub issue at github.com/kazade/dreampi