Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue May 8 12:12:04 EDT 2012


On 5/8/2012 9:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
> <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> There is no "both projects". there was Luke's project, and then
>> Risinger stole it and it's Risinger's project. There is only that one
>> thing -- Luke has no """fork""" of his own codebase.
>
> Presumably Luke could fork his own project, though. I haven't checked,
> but presumably the source is properly managed, so it can be forked as
> of any point in time.
>
> But it's pretty nasty to have to fork your own project.

You still have it backwards. Risinger forked the project with a new code 
host and mailing list, but stole the name and and some data in the 
process and made the false claim that his fork was the original. It is 
not clear if he damaged anything in the process.

If Luke continues his original project, it would still be the true 
pyjamas project, not a fork.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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