Software:List of software forks

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This is a list of notable software forks.

A timeline chart of how Linux distributions forked. The three largest trees are (from top) Debian, SLS and Red Hat.

Undated

1981

  • Symbolics Lisp Machine operating system, later called Symbolics Genera. Forked from the MIT Lisp Machine operating system, which was licensed by MIT to Symbolics in 1980.[1] This fork later motivated Richard Stallman to start the GNU Project.[2]

1985

  • POSTGRES (later PostgreSQL), after Ingres branched off as a proprietary project.

1990

1991

  • Xemacs, from GNU Emacs, originally for Lucid Corporation internal needs.

1993

1995

1997

  • EGCS was a fork of GCC, later named as the official version.

1998

  • Grace, from Xmgr, after that project ceased development.

1999

2000

  • TrueCrypt, from E4M when the latter was discontinued.
  • Tux Racer went proprietary in 2000, leading to several forks including OpenRacer, PlanetPenguin Racer and Extreme Tux Racer.
  • OpenOffice.org, from StarOffice after Sun Microsystems made the source code publicly available. OpenOffice.org was eventually forked into LibreOffice.

2001

2002

2003

2004

  • Baz, the previous version of Bazaar, from GNU arch.
  • FrostWire, from LimeWire after LimeWire's developers considered adding RIAA-sponsored blocking code.
  • MediaPortal, from XBMC.
  • WineX (later Cedega), was a proprietary fork of Wine.
  • XOrg, from XFree86, in order to adopt a more open development model and due to concerns over the latter's change to a license many distributors found unacceptable.

2005

  • Audacious, from Beep Media Player to continue work on the old version of that project.
  • Joomla, from Mambo due to concerns over project structure.
  • Claws Mail, from Sylpheed, due to perceived slowness in accepting enhancements.

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2019

2021

References

  1. MIT Lisp Machine License Signed Press Release October 1980
  2. Richard Stallman, My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs
  3. 3.0 3.1 "OpenSSH Project History". OpenSSH. 2016-04-20. http://www.openssh.com/history.html. Retrieved 2016-08-03. 
  4. Corbet, Jonathan (2006-08-12). "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses". LWN.net. https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/. Retrieved 2016-08-03. 
  5. Jaspert, Joerg (2006-09-04). "cdrkit (fork of cdrtools) uploaded to Debian, please test". debian-devel-announce. Debian. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html. Retrieved 2016-08-03. 
  6. "RM: cdrtools -- RoM: non-free, license problems". Debian. 2006-01-31. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377109. Retrieved 2016-08-03. 
  7. "Change log of release date from MPC-HC project". https://trac.mpc-hc.org/wiki/Changelog. 
  8. "Frequently Asked Questions". Icinga. https://www.icinga.org/resources/faq/. Retrieved 2016-08-03. 
  9. "Jigoshop Rise and Fall - How Did It Come to End of Jigoshop eCommerce Plugin?". 27 April 2020. https://www.kasareviews.com/jigoshop-review-end-of-jigoshop-ecommerce/. 
  10. "README for the initial, deprecated UXP repository on GitHub". https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/moebius/blob/master/README.md. Retrieved 2018-04-25. 
  11. "REMADE for the current UXP repository on GitHub". https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/blob/v2018.04.23/README.md. Retrieved 2018-04-25. 
  12. Phillips, David; Sundstrom, Dain; Traverso, Martin (27 December 2020). "We're rebranding PrestoSQL as Trino" (in en). https://trino.io/blog/2020/12/27/announcing-trino.html.