On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:12:41AM -0400, Jai Dayal wrote: > I'm just confused as to what the big deal is? > > The original scid is (apparently.. I don't know this for sure) not well > maintained because the original developer has better things to do. > > Someone else has made a fork that's more actively developed and maintained, > and now there's discussion to make SCIDvsPC the main. > > It seems that the original SCID developer is okay with this, so long as he > gets the appropriate credit and respect, correct?
Does it? > So what's the problem? You can't just change the name of the scidvspc project to scid and think that it's OK. They are two separate projects. It's fine to merge any changes in the scidvspc project into the scid project and then carry on development within the scid project umbrella, providing the scid project is happy with the patches, of course! http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/160185/can-i-legally-and-ethically-take-an-open-source-project-with-community-contribut http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/22255/whats-the-right-way-to-fork-re-use-code-from-an-open-source-project http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4753461/what-are-the-ethics-etiquette-of-forking-someone-elses-github-project-to-rele So if *ALL* the original authors of the scid project are consulted and you have their permission to drop their code in favour of the code in the forked project, then It may be allowable, but in my humble opinion that may be more trouble than it's worth, hence it is easier to fork the project. Hope this helps. Why not change the name of scidvspc to scidTNG (scid The Next Generation)? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
