Mahesh T. Pai scripsit: > If you do not like assigning copyright to the original author, you > are free to create your own fork by adding your modifications, and > distribute the whole thing yourselves. People did it to GNU Emacs by > creating Xemacs.
You are indeed free to do this, but it rarely happens and is generally considered a Bad Thing. Forks which remain split and where both branches have substantial life are very few: GNU Emacs/XEmacs, bison/byacc, FreeBSD/NetBSD, NetBSD/OpenBSD. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. --blurb for _Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi_ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3