CLFS Bashing - Fork?? When??

[Dan Nicholson]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jim Gifford <clfs at jg555.com> wrote:
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> We are not a fork, never have been.

How is it _not_ a fork? CLFS has different goals, a different
structure, runs on its own servers and contributes nothing (until 2
days ago) back to its supposed parent project, LFS. I see no other way
to describe CLFS than a fork.

Now, there's nothing wrong with being a fork. Tons of successful open
source projects were spawned from forks. You and Ryan had different
goals about what you wanted to do and weren't getting that back into
LFS. So you took up stake elsewhere and everyone moved on. The only
bad thing is the splintering of resources, but that was happening
anyway.

We can call CLFS whatever we want, but by typical open source project
standards, it is definitely a fork.

I don't intend that as bashing in any way and admire what you guys
have done. Really.

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Dan