Questions tagged [forking]
Use this tag for questions about creating either a private or competing version of an existing open project.
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How does GitHub's "forking right" cope with an "All rights reserved" project?
The GitHub FAQ states (emphasis mine):
You're under no obligation to choose a license. It's your right not to
include one with your code or project, but please be aware of the
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What are the best ways to get involved with open source projects? [closed]
I would like to know if someone could explain to me how to go about working on an open source project. I know that you can use git and other types of programs to commit code, but is there some sort of ...
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How to deal with licences after forking a project?
I forked a project with an MIT license on GitHub:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2012 Some Name
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software ...
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Preventing people from forking and profiting over minor changes
Twinone App Locker is an Android app. It used to be open-source, released under an Apache 2 License. It was ad-supported.
People forked it. If I understand correctly, they tended not to make any ...
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Common practice on GitHub and license/copyright
I have been searching the web for quite some time now, but the plethora of opinions/comments/articles about licensing questions make it difficult to verify how trustworthy the various sources are. ...
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What can I do when a fork of my project is out-competing mine?
Suppose I'm working on a FLOSS project and someone forked it and the forked project seems to be moving faster than mine and gains more popularity than my original project (possibly because the people ...
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Recourse for forks ignoring open source license on original code in App Store?
I used to contribute to a free iOS app on GitHub that was released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0.
Multiple people have since taken the code from that GitHub repository and released ...
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Rules/Guidelines about forking a project vs. creating a new one?
After reading these lines:
make a new github project (not a fork).
merge in the original repository.
In this Answer, I was wondering if there are any rules or guidelines when to fork a ...
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Derivatives and Forks... Is there a difference?
The terms fork and derivative have really been bugging me as I always seem to imply that they're different, but then in many ways the same. You hear the term fork many times on platforms such as Git ...
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When should I consider creating a private fork of a suitably licensed project for commercial use?
Suppose I am developing a commercial product, but one heavily based on open source software. Further suppose one of the open source projects I use has a permissive license (such as Apache 2).
At some ...
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What type(s) of licenses ensures that forks of my project will stay open source?
My knowledge of licensing is somewhat fuzzy, it's something I wish I would have looked into more when I got into making open source projects...
That being stated, are there licenses that will ensure ...
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Differences between Firefox and IceCat?
From GNUzilla:
GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While ...
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Is commit author name stripping copyright infringement?
I'm the author of Fulguris which is in conflict with Styx. Both projects are MPL 2.0. Fulguris is a fork of the decade old Lightning and Styx is just a rebrand of Fulguris.
Styx completely destroyed ...
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Is it possible to get rich prosecuting GitHub users of an unlicensed fork?
On the thread Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) you can find a recipe to getting rich:
Post it on Github
Make everyone think it's free to use.
Sue everyone you can ...
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Is ripping off an open source library okay?
I don't know if I'm over-reacting but a while ago, I'm using a library https://github.com/sudeepag/SAConfettiView and I saw an open ticket https://github.com/sudeepag/SAConfettiView/issues/57 and it ...
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Do software patches ever inherit the license of the patched project?
This is a follow up question to an earlier question which included a misunderstanding about the nature of the MIT/X license, and has been clarified there.
Consider the software project dwm by Suckless....
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