On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, ALAN BROOKER wrote:
Overall, at which point is a project forked? When additions are made or taken away? Or just when licence terms are changed? If the code is copied and then released under a different name?In this case it would be the licence change I believe
Literally speaking, there's a fork when there used to be one sequence of versions and now there are two parallel sequences of versions. But sometimes the term is used even though there is still only one active sequence, simply because it is presumed that there might be other versions one day in the other sequence. Quite often, such sequences never get officially closed.
Those sequences are usually called branches, though sometimes they are called "forks", though in non-slang, the fork is the splitting point of the branches.
(However, lots of people assume pretty strong connotations about the word "fork" but not "branch". I think that it's a "slashdotism" and I reject it for reasons I can explain.)
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