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How do you define a fork?
Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 01:40 PM EDT
>>How do you define a fork?

I think a pretty good definition is:

>> >>It is a brand new implementation. Sure, it includes
>> >>some things from (original)

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Sun's Tim Bray on the Day Sun Released Java Under GPL -- "There Will be Lots of Forks and I Approve" ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 02:39 PM EDT
A fork is when two different groups have two different visions for the direction
of a product and go their separate ways, both starting from the same codebase.

There have been cases where code has been replaced piecemeal, and eventually a
codebase is declared free of the original code, so the license can be changed,
but in general, a fork will have to have the same license as the original
because it contains code from the original.

Of course, that predates this whole API-is-copyrightable nonsense -- if that
theory holds, it will upend a lot of apple carts.

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How do you define a fork?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 05:23 PM EDT

Answer: it's not a spoon!

Sorry, a bit of facetiousness has struck!

RAS

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The prongs of a copyright dilemma...
Authored by: mexaly on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 07:16 PM EDT
...upon which petard Oracle has hoisted themselves.

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