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This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to
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exemplify the assertion of software freedoms.
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2019-04-02 13:33:52 -04:00
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The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of
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[a division of community development effort into two distinct projects](https://opensource.com/article/17/12/fork-clone-difference),
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rather than the trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus
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used in the normal course of development and testing of those working with
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or within a project.
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In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships
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amongst projects
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Stretch goals include annotations indicating the date of the fork, the
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nature of the fork, any divergence in goals or features of the child
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projects, languages used, development environments, documention for the
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projects or for the motivations for entering the forking process, post-fork
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disposition of the child projects, influence on other projects,
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characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the
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fork including any later merging of the projects.
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Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered. If so, the
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focus is on code bases rather than on [companies](https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/).
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