Hi Daniel, In my opinion, any contribution to an open-source project is most welcomed. And yeah helping with the translaions into different languages is a contribution that is much required to the FoodForce2 activity. I will definitely appreciate such a contribution.
But still there is a difference between contribution and a fork. To have a fork one needs to have some major prior contribution to the project. Adding translations and changing the copyrights, and forget the credits of the people who have been working on a particular project for around 2 years, is probably, atleast in my opinion, ethically wrong. Regards, Mohit Taneja On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > 2009/11/15 Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org>: > > 2009/11/15 Mohit Taneja <mohitge...@gmail.com>: > >> Well it seems to be an unmaintained fake release of the original > FoodForce2 > >> game. I guess only the copyrights have been changed. In fact, I went > through > >> the their homepage and saw that this organization is into doing such > things > >> only, they copy source code of open source activities, do minor tweaks > and > >> then upload it by their own credits. > > > > Well they have certainly contributed some new activities to Sugar > > which I assume are their own, but this is indeed a bit odd. Is this > > really the first you've heard of this fork? > > And to confuse matters more.. surely you knew of Manusheel's > involvement (or at least his interest) in your project well before the > supposed fork date of June 23 -- I have a personal email in my inbox > from May where Manusheel was persuading deployments to try out the new > activity and provide feedback (I was in Paraguay at the time). He > writes it as if you are all a team, seeta included, and suggests that > it was even listed as a project on the SEETA website at that time. And > see his name on > http://blog.laptop.org/2009/05/08/food-force-2-makes-waves/ > > Anyway, it seems like the easiest thing to do here would be to give > commit access to Manusheel's team to the original repository. It looks > like they have just made the first change in their forked version, > adding a spanish translation, and I imagine that's not a contribution > you would turn down. > > Manusheel, in the open source world, when forking a project the common > etiquette is to rename it to something substantially different. But > in this case I suggest you simply dissolve the fork and attempt to > work together, in the same place. Less work for everyone. > > Daniel >
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