A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks: Dates, Reasons and Outcomes
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While hard forks are a freedom associated with open source licensed software, they are a disruption that should be avoided whenever possible.
“They illustrated that while hard forks are a freedom associated with open source licensed software, they are a disruption that should be avoided whenever possible (Robles and González-Barahona 2012).”
From Freeriding and Rebellion: An Investigation of Open Source Vendor Relicensing and Member Hard Forking Events (2026) · cites this paper as Robles and González-Barahona 2012
When vendors unilaterally control governance practices of an open source project, such as those related to licensing, there is a likelihood of collective action threats present in the tensions between the goals of the vendor and interactions of other project members.
“When vendors unilaterally control governance practices of an open source project, such as those related to licensing, there is a likelihood of collective action threats present in the tensions between the goals of the vendor and interactions of other project members (Robles and González-Barahona 2012).”
From Freeriding and Rebellion: An Investigation of Open Source Vendor Relicensing and Member Hard Forking Events (2026) · cites this paper as Robles and González-Barahona 2012
Robles and González-Barahona (2012) found only 13 hard forks prior to 1998.
“Robles and González-Barahona (2012) found only 13 hard forks prior to 1998.”
From Freeriding and Rebellion: An Investigation of Open Source Vendor Relicensing and Member Hard Forking Events (2026) · cites this paper as Robles and González-Barahona 2012
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Raymond, E. S. (1998) · First Monday · doi:10.5210/fm.v3i10.621 · Cited by 290 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Eric Raymond argues in [18] that the free software movement has an elaborate but largely unadmitted set of ownership customs that include the possibility, but mainly avoidance of forking.”
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- Authors
- Robles, G., & González-Barahona, J. M.
- Venue
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- AICT-378
- Pages
- 1-14
- ISSN
- 1571-5736 (ISSN-L)
- 1868-4238
- 1861-2288
- OpenAlex
- W153118085
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 3.69
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- inria.hal.science
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- IFIP International Federation for Information Processing/IFIP (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- BURJC Digital (King Juan Carlos University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Hispana (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Keywords
- software forks, free software, open source software, software evolution, project continuation
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