On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19.17, Stephen Birch wrote: > > Still looks more like a fork than a derivative ..... or a spoon :-)
I have problems with your terminology - what do you mean by 'fork', and what
do you mean by 'derivative'?
To my understanding, Ubuntu is certainly a derivative of Debian (since it
derives most of its packaging from Debian), and it's a fork (since Debian
is not dead, and both projects are maintained.) Passing of code between
branches of a fork is something that can happen - for example, the gcc/egcs
fork was originally announce that way: both branches would take code from
the other side.)
cheers
-- vbi
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<Manoj> madduck: Umm, if you wanna hack at kernel-package in non-standard
ways, you need to be one with the source
<madduck> make is not one with its own Makefiles.
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