27 Jan
2011
27 Jan
'11
9:15 p.m.
On Thursday 27 January 2011 20:57:22 drew Roberts wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:56:22 Paul Davis
wrote:
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...
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?