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What to do when somebody forks my open-source project with the same name?
I have this GPL project, it got stuck for like a year, I really like the idea, then somebody fork it and changed the whole thing but used the same name, I don't mind for the code (it was GPL after ...
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Why do people fork repositories on GitHub?
I noticed that a lot of GitHub accounts only have repositories which are forked from other accounts. In addition the people who do this usually don't make any contributions to the forked repositories.
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Is git-flow in the spirit of git? [closed]
The question is pretty self-explanatory. I've had some experience with git-flow, and not much more true experience with plain git before that. (I was using it more as a backup-provider.) I'm ...
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Ethics and best practices when forking code base
I have a question as to the proper best practices and ethics revolving forking code.
I've taken code base licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 and brought ...
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What is the etiquette of renaming an open source fork?
I want to fork on Github the TestNG java testing framework (Apache 2 license) so I can add/change some minor things to suit my needs.
It's unlikely that all of my changes would be approved in the ...
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Copying (forking) an open source project to your own repository
I'm currently using an open source project called CodeFirstMembership for one of my projects. There's a critical issue that I need to get past, and the more I use it, the more I find things I need to ...
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Design question about a concurrent forking server
I'm in the early stages of designing a client/server application. The clients will be batch programs that read a file of customer contact data (name, address, email address, phone no's) and pass ...
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Forking a repo on GitHub but allowing new issues on the fork
I have previously forked other people's repos on GitHub, and I have noticed that issues stay with the original repo, and that I can't file issues on the forked repo.
I now have the following task. I ...
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Gerrit code review, or Github's fork and pull model?
I am starting a software project that will be team AND community developed. I was previously sold on gerrit, but now Github's fork and pull request model seem to almost provide more tools, ways to ...
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Forking an open source project using Git
There is an open source project that I want to fork for my own reasons. It currently has a Git mirror of its main SVN repository which I can use.
What are the best techniques for forking a project ...
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Forking a GPL dual licensed software with business owned copyrights
After receiving some threats of the copyrights holder of a dual licensed software(GPL2 and commercial) to buy the commercial version for projects in production, I am thinking to make a fork.
In a ...
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Forking project on Github process
There is a project on Github that I mostly like and want to use. There are a few things I want to do differently/remove that doesn't make sense for what I want/need. Also I want to add a few things as ...
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Forking an open source project: should one create a new changelog file? Should restart version number?
I am going to fork an open source project. Would you recommend to create a new changelog file or to update the original one? Would it be reasonable to increment its version number or would it be ...
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Licensing on forked projects
I forked a project that hasn't been maintained for a while now. I have a lot of changes I'd like to implement and want to actively maintain the project and keep it open source.
How does the licensing ...
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Is recursive forking considered an anti-pattern?
I'm starting to tinker with process forking, just to get a feel for it. I thought I'd write an example where work is distributed among child processes and the results handed back to the parent; this ...
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What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project?
I'm interested in forking a project released under a two-clause BSD license:
Copyright (c) 2010 {copyright holder}
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, ...
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Why fork a library for your own application?
Why should a programmer ever fork a library for inclusion in a widely used application?
I ask this question because I was reading an article about why Chromium isn't packaged for many Linux distros ...
