• Vintor@retrolemmy.com
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    4 days ago

    Ok, thanks for clarifying. I was asking for a statement in support of your initial claim that turned out to be completely wrong: they didn’t duplicate the code upon creation of the project, they didn’t create a fork under their control, and they don’t make independent changes to the code.

    What they are doing is customising the current code of Firefox at the time of compiling the LibreWolf project. If you really insist that that is a fork, then one of us doesn’t understand what a fork is, and I’m not going to continue a fruitless argument.

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      4 days ago

      they didn’t create a fork under their control

      I’m sorry but this is simply incorrect (See 1,2,3), as I have previously stated. You could point to sources that agree with you though if you disagree.

      1: https://itsfoss.com/librewolf/

      2: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LibreWolf

      3: https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/

      These are some examples that use “fork” in describing Librewolf.

      What they are doing is customising the current code of Firefox at the time of compiling the LibreWolf project.

      You have described the creation of a fork.

      … I’m not going to continue a fruitless argument.

      I’m here if you wish to discuss further.