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D. Joe 695bbe2785 Add Foswiki fork from Twiki ca. 2008 1 year ago
386bsd-netbsd.md Add quickly NetBSD origins in 386BSD 3 years ago
CONTRIBUTING.md * Underscores to delimit hyphen/dash-containing project names. 5 years ago
LICENSE.md Update license year 4 years ago
README.md Adding links to vmb's fork/clone clarifcation, and to our incredible journey to disambiguate type of merges considered 4 years ago
airtime-libretime.md Typo correction 1 year ago
amara-proprietary.md Add Amara subtitling program's fork to proprietary license 3 years ago
attic-borg.md Attic backup to borg backup 3 years ago
centos-rockylinux.md Replace duplicate reference to the rockylinux wikipedia article with reference to direct project link 1 year ago
curl-gnurl.md Replaced the second dead link with a current version, can't find a counterpart to the first dead link so just striking that out. 4 years ago
debian-ubuntu.md Add Debian to Ubuntu 2 years ago
drone-woodpecker.md Woodpecker CI forked from Drone circa 2018 2 years ago
drupal-backdrop.md Backdrop CMS is a fork of Drupal 5 years ago
emby-jellyfin.md Add jellyfin fork from emby 3 years ago
fileutils+shellutils+textutils_coreutils.md Three utility packages were combined to form coreutils 3 years ago
font-awesome_fork-awesome.md * font-awesome to fork-awesome 5 years ago
freebsd-dragonflybsd.md Add quickly DragonFly BSD origins in FreeBSD 3 years ago
freenode-libera.md Libera formed after a Freenode management change 2 years ago
gcc-egcs.md Add the EGCS fork and succession of gcc 2 years ago
gimp-glimpse.md Add archive.org link for original version of pull quote, and indicate it was from an earlier version. Remove the link to some old commit not sure why that was in there. 1 year ago
gogs-gitea.md Some Go git hosting, Gogs forks 6 years ago
gogs-notabug.md Some Go git hosting, Gogs forks 6 years ago
hackmd-codimd-hedgedoc.md Note some of the relationships amongst HedgeDoc, CodiMD, and HackMD 3 years ago
htop.md Add htop-dev from htop 3 years ago
irrlicht_irrlicht-mt.md Minetest fork of Irrlicht to Irrlicht-MT 1 year ago
jboss-redhat.md * found this one looking at various SSO packages 5 years ago
jsfound+nodejsfound-openjs.md js foundation and node.js foundation merge to form openjs foundation 4 years ago
libreelec-from-openelec.md * LibreELEC from OpenELEC cf Kodi MythTV et al 5 years ago
moosefs-lizardfs.md LizardFS forked from MooseFS in 2013. 4 years ago
nagios-icinga.md Add Icinga's fork from Nagios 1 year ago
netbsd-openbsd.md Add quickly OpenBSD origins in NetBSD 3 years ago
node.js-io.js.md io.js forks from node.js and then merges in again under foundational managment 3 years ago
open_muscat-xapian.md Xapian forked from Open Muscat circa 2001 2 years ago
openwrt-lede.md openwrt and lede via The Reg 6 years ago
opn-oftc.md OFTC forms out of dissatisfaction with OPN 2 years ago
osdl+fsg-linuxfound.md open source developer labs (osdl) an free standards group (fsg) merge to form linux foundation 4 years ago
radare2-rizin.md Quick add radare2 to rizin 3 years ago
redhat-oracle.md Add Oracle Linux as an ongoing fork of RHEL 4 years ago
sodipodi-inkscape.md Inkscape from Sodipodi 4 years ago
sugarcrm-suitecrm.md stub with some links for sugar vs suite crm fork 6 years ago
twiki-foswiki.md Add Foswiki fork from Twiki ca. 2008 1 year ago
xbmc-kodi.md Add the xmbc -> kodi renaming 4 years ago
xenserver_xcp-ng.md * xcp-ng added, h/t to CTM 5 years ago

README.md

This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to exemplify the assertion of software freedoms.

The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of a division of community development effort into two distinct projects, rather than the trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus used in the normal course of development and testing of those working with or within a project.

In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships amongst projects

Stretch goals include annotations indicating the date of the fork, the nature of the fork, any divergence in goals or features of the child projects, languages used, development environments, documention for the projects or for the motivations for entering the forking process, post-fork disposition of the child projects, influence on other projects, characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the fork including any later merging of the projects.

Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered. If so, the focus is on code bases rather than on companies.