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

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but now that it's happened, the most obvious way forward is to
fork the hijacked project back to the original, given that the
hijacked one is being posted as the original.

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

Yeah, but if he doesn't have command of the domain any more, then
he'll likely be spawning it under a new name somewhere.

ChrisA