From: Nasir Khan <rubylearner@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T14:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyforge etiquette for dead projects

> The project's owner owns the copyrights and if he didn't
> give permission then things could get very nasty.

Would'nt forking be a copyright infringement?

When you say fork you basically mean start a new project with a
different name but use the old (dead) project's code as a starting
point. Right?

Is there a precedence of forking on Rubyforge?

- nasir

On 5/17/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Phil Tomson <philtomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you don't hear back from the project owner, then perhaps you could
> > contact someone at RubyForge and ask if you can adopt the project (I'm
> > not familiar with the mechanics, but it should be possible).
>
> Typically, we'd rather see someone fork a project.  If the original
> maintainer can't be contacted, the best bet is to just change the name
> of the project, fork it, and start a new RubyForge project.
>
> We haven't found any better solution that keeps us from accidentally
> upsetting someone.
> Tom would have the ultimate say on this, but I'm pretty sure that's
> the response you'd get from him.
>
> -greg
>
>