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+OK, so this one just came to my attention, via a brief item on the Planet
+GNU aggregate feed:
+
+[gnURL 7.56.0 released](https://gnunet.org/node/2657)
+Sun, 10/08/2017 - 17:25 — ng0
+
+I thought, "what is this *gnurl* thing, anyway" and poked around to find:
+
+[libgnurl](https://gnunet.org/gnurl)
+Wed, 10/23/2013 - 09:13 — Christian Grothoff
+
+So, I'm reading along, nodding my head and thinking "ok, this seems fine,
+it doesn't seem to have any of the rancor and vituperation about upstream
+being unresponsive or greedy mountebanks or whatever". 
+
+Then I dig around a little more to find:
+
+cURL and libcurl, Open Source
+[he forked off libgnurl](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/27/he-forked-off-libgnurl/)
+October 27, 2013 Daniel Stenberg	
+
+and see that it might not have been received with such affection from the
+parent project.
+
+So it goes.
+