@mrmasterkeyboard @xinit the #RightToFork is elemental to #FLOSS and necessary for #OpenSource to exist.

• As much as I'm not a fan of seemingly abandoned forks of my works, I am not in the position to restrict or ban those.
  • And people OFC have their right to make a #fork whenever they want to do so!

We ain't criticizing corporations that maintain outdated inhouse forks out of principle, and I think that #evi isn't a "fork for the sake of forking" but actually does things different and apparenty "irreconcileable" to the mainline Project.

• This is how #Innovation is born.
  • See #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #OpenZFS, #Illumos, #Waterfox, #TorBrowser, …

Nit to mention EVERYTHING IS "#POLITICAL" - including "apoliticalness"!

@brembs FLOSS is a necessary condition for the #RightToFork.
https://eve.gd/2023/07/26/whats-the-point-of-having-open-scholarly-infrastructures-and-how-do-we-test-their-resilience/

As for #protocols.io, the terms of use are very clear that it's proprietary https://www.protocols.io/terms, with some parts being CC-BY. To be properly forkable it would need
1) the website itself and its software to be freely licensed,
2) the database to be CC-0 (it's only metadata anyway),
3) data dumps to be published somewhere (at least PMC?).

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