On 1/27/11, Brett McCoy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, 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 > > The only instance I can think of is how Cinepaint (aka Film-Gimp) was > forked off from the Gimp. I think it deadended, though, when the Gimp > caught up to some of the same functionality
FilmGIMP was a friendly fork, kept in same CVS repo, but different branch. The team behind it started doing everything properly after that, i.e. developing GEGL, the new GIMP's non-destructive core, but they didn't get very far and left. Cinepaint is FilmGIMP picked up by a completely different team (and there were battles and soure faces there as well). They ended up trying to create their own new core and new UI and failed. Last time I checked, Cinepaint seemd to have proper attributions to the initial GIMP's team. IIRC, quite a few major projects have been forked in the past. Bazaar and bzr-ng, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, Amarok and Clementine (well, a time-machine fork in this case), Sodipodi and Inkscape, etc. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
