[vox-tech] [OT] Codebase forks (was The AFPL)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Micah J. Cowan (micah at cowan.name):

> I always thought it odd that so many companies thinking about
> embracing open source software seemed for some reason to be scared to
> death of forks.

It's partly a holdover instinct from the bad old days of proprietary
Unix.  I wrote an essay on that subject, at a prior firm:

"Fear of Forking" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Licensing_and_Law/

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