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

[Jens M Andreasen]

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 11:15 -0500, Raymond Martin wrote:

> Stick to the license, that is all that is required of you.

Yes, please do. Does it say that the GPL lifts the copyright? No it does
not! It is in fact copyright law that makes copyleft tick in the first
place.

You want to fork a project because it is a pig? Do so! but remember that
no matter how much lipstick you smear on it, it is still a ... Well,
what i mean is that the origin does not change and therefore you give
proper credit to all of the developers.

To remember: If copyrights were not explicitly and in writing signed
over to you then they were not.

/j