Software:List of software forks
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This is a list of notable software forks.
Undated
- The many varieties of proprietary Unix in the 1980s and 1990s — almost all derived from AT&T Unix under licence and all called "Unix", but increasingly mutually incompatible. See UNIX wars.
- Most Linux distributions are descended from other distributions, most being traceable back to Debian, Red Hat or Softlanding Linux System (see image right). Since most of the content of a distribution is free and open source software, ideas and software interchange freely as is useful to the individual distribution. Merges (e.g., United Linux or Mandriva) are rare.
- Pretty Good Privacy, forked outside of the United States to free it from restrictive US laws on the exportation of cryptographic software.
- The game NetHack has spawned a number of variants using the original code, notably Slash'EM (1997), and was itself a fork (1987) of Hack.
- Openswan and strongSwan, from the discontinued FreeS/WAN.
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
- Microsoft SQL Server, from Sybase SQL Server, via a technology-sharing agreement concerning the Tabular Data Stream protocol.
- SWLPC, from LPMud.
1991
- Xemacs, from GNU Emacs, originally for Lucid Corporation internal needs.
1993
1995
- Apache HTTP Server, from the moribund NCSA HTTPd.
- OpenBSD, a fork of NetBSD 1.0 by Theo de Raadt due to internal developer personality clashes.
1997
- EGCS was a fork of GCC, later named as the official version.
1998
- Grace, from Xmgr, after that project ceased development.
1999
- FilmGIMP, later called CinePaint, from GIMP, to handle 48-bit colour.
- OSSH from SSH, when that project was proprietised.[3]
- OpenSSH, from OSSH.[3]
- Sodipodi, from Gill.
- Steel Bank Common Lisp, from CMU Common Lisp.
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
- ELinks, began as an experimental fork of Links.
- Fluxbox, from Blackbox.
- GNU Radio, from pSpectra.
- Xvid, was a fork of OpenDivX.
- WebKit, project was started within Apple by Lisa Melton on 25 June 2001 as a fork of KHTML.
2002
- GForge, from SourceForge.
- GraphicsMagick, from ImageMagick due to concerns over the openness of development.
- The Matroska container format, from the Multimedia Container Format, due to differences in direction.
- MirOS BSD, from OpenBSD.
- Syllable Desktop, from the stagnant AtheOS.
2003
- aMule, from xMule, which itself forked from lMule shortly before, over developer disagreements.
- b2evolution, from b2/CafeLog.
- DragonFly BSD, from FreeBSD 4.8 by long-time FreeBSD developer Matt Dillon, due to disagreement over FreeBSD 5's technical direction.
- Epiphany, from Galeon, after developer disagreements about Galeon's growing complexity.
- Inkscape (vector-graphics program), from Sodipodi.
- NeoOffice, a fork of OpenOffice.org, with an incompatible license (GPL rather than LGPL), due to disagreements about licensing and about the best method to port OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X.
- The Safari renderer that became WebKit, from KHTML.
- sK1, from Skencil when the latter moved from Tk to GTK+.
- WordPress, from b2/CafeLog.
- Zen Cart, from osCommerce.
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
- Adempiere, a community maintained fork of Compiere 2.5.3b, due to disagreement with commercial and technical direction of Compiere Inc.
- Cdrkit, from Cdrtools due to perceived licensing issues.[4][5][6]
- LedgerSMB, from SQL-Ledger, due to disagreements over handling of security issues.
- MindTouch, a fork of MediaWiki.
- Mulgara, from Kowari after trademark threats from Northrop Grumman.
- MPC-HC,[7] a fork of Media Player Classic.
2007
- Go-oo, from OpenOffice.org, due to that project's contributor licensing agreement.
2008
- Boxee, a proprietary fork of XBMC.
- Dreamwidth, from LiveJournal by ex-LiveJournal developers.
- Drizzle, was intended as a slimmed-down and faster fork of MySQL.
- MiaCMS, from Mambo.
- Plex, a proprietary fork of XBMC.
2009
- dbndns, from djbdns after the latter was released into the public domain and abandoned.
- Freeplane, from FreeMind.
- FusionForge, from GForge when GForge shifted focus to its proprietary version.
- Icinga, from Nagios, due to perceived slow development and problems dealing with Nagios LLC.[8]
- kompoZer, from Nvu after that project went dormant.
- MariaDB, from MySQL, over concern as to Sun Microsystems' plans for the latter.
- Pale Moon, from Firefox.
- Qt Extended Improved, from Qtopia after the latter was discontinued by Qt Software.
- Voddler, is a proprietary fork of XBMC and FFmpeg.
2010
- Peppermint Linux OS, from Lubuntu, due to a perceived need for a cloud-centric derivative of the Ubuntu OS.
- Chamilo, from Dokeos, due to community management concerns with that project.
- LibreOffice, from OpenOffice.org (and merging Go-oo), due to Oracle Corporation's perceived neglect of the software.
- OpenIndiana, from OpenSolaris after Oracle Corporation discontinued the latter.
- Illumos, from the OpenSolaris kernel OS/Net, after Oracle closed down public access to the source code.
- webtrees, from PhpGedView, due to SourceForge's policy on exporting encryption.
- Xonotic, from Nexuiz, after that project was taken proprietary.
- Mageia, from Mandriva Linux, due to financial uncertainty and the layoff by Edge-IT, a Mandriva subsidiary employing many of the corporate staff working on the Mandriva distribution
- OpenAM, from OpenSSO after Oracle Corporation discontinued the latter.
- Calligra, from KOffice after developer disagreements.
2011
- Fire OS, a fork of Android for the Kindle Fire
- Jenkins, from Hudson (2011), due to Oracle Corporation's perceived neglect of the project's infrastructure and disagreements over use of the name on non-Oracle-maintained infrastructure.
- Univa Grid Engine, from Oracle Grid Engine, after Oracle Corporation stopped releasing project source.
- Mer, started as a fork of MeeGo.
- libav, a fork of ffmpeg.
- WooCommerce, a fork of Jigoshop.[9]
2012
- MPC-BE, a fork of Media Player Classic
2013
2014
- LibreSSL, from OpenSSL.
- Nokia X software platform, a fork of the Android Open Source Project developed by Nokia exclusively for its X family of Android smartphones.
- io.js from node.js. In 2015 it was blessed as the official version of node.js.
2015
- EdgeHTML, from Trident
- Open Live Writer, from Windows Live Writer 2012
2016
- Collabora Online, from LibreOffice, Collabora Online is a web-based enterprise ready edition of LibreOffice
- Goanna, from Gecko
- Nextcloud, from ownCloud
- Cyanogenmod from LineageOS
2017
- Basilisk, from Firefox.
- Bitcoin Cash, from Bitcoin Core, supported by the forked implementations Bitcoin ABC, Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin XT.
- Unified XUL Platform, from XUL.[10][11]
2019
2021
- White Star, from Pale Moon.
- BuzzlyArt, from Artrise
References
- ↑ MIT Lisp Machine License Signed Press Release October 1980
- ↑ Richard Stallman, My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OpenSSH Project History". OpenSSH. 2016-04-20. http://www.openssh.com/history.html. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ↑ Corbet, Jonathan (2006-08-12). "cdrtools - a tale of two licenses". LWN.net. https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Change log of release date from MPC-HC project". https://trac.mpc-hc.org/wiki/Changelog.
- ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". Icinga. https://www.icinga.org/resources/faq/. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ↑ "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/.
- ↑ "README for the initial, deprecated UXP repository on GitHub". https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/moebius/blob/master/README.md. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ↑ "REMADE for the current UXP repository on GitHub". https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/blob/v2018.04.23/README.md. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ↑ 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.
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