From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T15:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyforge etiquette for dead projects

Nasir Khan wrote:
>> 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
> 

Normally with projects on rubyforge, the license explicitly permits 
forking. In fact, this is the case with nearly all open source software, 
and most (all?) of the software on rubyforge is open source.

Dan