[LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

[Arnold Krille]

On Thursday 27 January 2011 20:57:22 drew Roberts wrote:
> On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:56:22 Paul Davis wrote:
> > i just don't remember other cases where major existing FLOSS projects
> > were forked
> 
> This is not about what is going in in this thread in any direct way. (Or
> may not be at least, I do not know enough to say I guess.)
> 
> What if I "fork" a project because I think it gives me a good starting
> point or base for what I want to do but the direction I intend to take
> things will result in a completely different sort of program to the one I
> forked? Should that still be considered a fork or is there another term
> for such a beast? Would another term be useful?

There is really nothing wrong telling your users that you used another app as 
starting point.

But there is something morally wrong when you tell your users that you used 
another project as starting point and did more or less big changes but then 
you refuse to tell your users which app you forked...
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