Discussion Ask HN: Can one contributor of an open source software forbid someone's fork? I never expect this to happen but it does happen in real world.In project ABC, a contributor Foo comes up with a new API while contributor Bar believes that this API "confuses everyone".Apparently Mr.Bar is rude and arrogant, but what happens next is that Mr.Foo creates a fork.After a few iteration Mr.Foo creates a new repo ABCx with the same code from his fork, and of course with some identical structure from the main repo.Now Mr.Bar is even more angry and claims that he wants to forbid this fork.But the questions is: Mr.Bar is just one contributor of project ABC. Does he have the right to "forbid" a fork?The license is MIT. 2 points mit20220401 4 years ago 1 comments
In project ABC, a contributor Foo comes up with a new API while contributor Bar believes that this API "confuses everyone".
Apparently Mr.Bar is rude and arrogant, but what happens next is that Mr.Foo creates a fork.
After a few iteration Mr.Foo creates a new repo ABCx with the same code from his fork, and of course with some identical structure from the main repo.
Now Mr.Bar is even more angry and claims that he wants to forbid this fork.
But the questions is: Mr.Bar is just one contributor of project ABC. Does he have the right to "forbid" a fork?
The license is MIT.