On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:22 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <[email protected]> wrote: > @Eugene > > Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. > My example fits exactly the description of what is called > forking: > Try > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29 > http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToFork
OK, let's look for a software example. The lead developers of the Amarok audio player software decided to rewrite the software for version 2.0 going from version 1.4. This was criticized by some other developers so they took the code base from 1.4 and created a "status quo" fork of Amarok (such as Pana and Clementine). The "status quo" fork does not always have the right to the servers or domain name or trademark/brand name simply because they want to continue with the original code (or original license, or original whatever). If the majority of supporters of a project agree with the change then the project goes with the majority. This is not a rotten thing, unlike what you declare. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
