Adding links to vmb's fork/clone clarifcation, and to our incredible journey to disambiguate type of merges considered

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This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to
exemplify the assertion of software freedoms. exemplify the assertion of software freedoms.
The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of a division of The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of
community development effort into two distinct projects, rather than the [a division of community development effort into two distinct projects](https://opensource.com/article/17/12/fork-clone-difference),
trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus used in the rather than the trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus
normal course of development and testing of those working with or within a used in the normal course of development and testing of those working with
project. or within a project.
In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships
amongst projects amongst projects
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characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the
fork including any later merging of the projects. fork including any later merging of the projects.
Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered. Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered. If so, the
focus is on code bases rather than on [companies](https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/).