GPL and forking

[David "Lefty" Schlesinger]

On 2/13/09 6:16 AM, "Remco" <remco47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:53 PM, David Lefty Schlesinger
> <lefty at access-company.com> wrote:
>> Forking is discouraged when a project is active, but if there's no project,
>> and the author can't be found, it doesn't really seem as though it
>> constitutes a "fork"...
> 
> Actually, this would still be considered a fork, and it would be the
> most positive possible form of forking. Basically what it was invented
> for! This would be a case where the GPL has saved a project from
> extinction.

Your last point is an excellent one, so sure. Mostly (as the original
question shows) forking is generally considered to be a bad thing, to be
avoided if possible...

But, yeah.