TWiki - FOSS turned sour

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Wed Oct 29 12:53:25 UTC 2008


"KwangErn Liew" <ke.liew at gmail.com> writes:
> As a heavy user, it's quite disheartening that a FOSS project doesn't
> adhere to democracy and transparency resulting into a fork.

I don't know this case in particular.  It's disappointing when people don't
behave like good community members, but I don't know if we'll ever fix that.
Free software can only ensure that you always have the option of forking.

> I have yet to hear projects forking in such a tremendous way.

Have you read this:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html

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