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[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced

Subsonic begat libresonic Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects. Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I remember hearing about Cyanogen way back when, didn't realize LineageOS was forked from it

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

My big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Because business majors only know how to exploit good things that would be better off without them.

If the good thing is left to just be better off without them – while they fuck around with a separate thing – then people will never be interested in the business majors' product.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

MBAs love taking an existing brand and sucking whatever value they can extract. Like chupacabras but for functioning and useful products.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

It's a forked up world.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.

Also OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, Android (AOSP) (soft forked to LineageOS and GrapheneOS, but no hard fork)

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry, I couldn't understand your comment. Could you please explain it better?

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 43 points 9 hours ago

Simple Mobile Tools -> Fossify Tools

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

look under the hood
They're Gnome with extensions and a theme

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Gitea, took control away from community and gave it to a for profit organization. Forgejo was born

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It has been on my list to figure out how to move to forgejo, need to do it soon before the migration process breaks or gets awful.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

If you're using docker: change your image name from gitea to forgejo. Repull. Done. Baremetal should be just as simple. Migrations are as easy as leaving all the data in-place and changing the binary at this moment in time.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fixed minecraft(terrible name)->Harmony/Melody

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

what does it do?

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Redis / Valkey

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 55 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Audacity was the first one I thought of.

Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.

(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What happened to the Sodium mod?

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The lead developer changed the license to a much less permissive one because of drama surrounding being credited in modpacks. The dev thinks there are forks that exist solely to sidestep crediting the original mod, I'm not up to date enough on Minecraft modding lore to know if this is true or not.

I'm pretty sure there's also a fork that branches off of the last GPL commit but I forget what it's called.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't GPL technically require you to attribute the upstream anyway?

The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Most open sorce licenses do, not just the GPL. I'm not sure what Minecraft modpackers do. But in the free and open source world, you'll always find that attribution. Sometimes they have a list who wrote the software and who maintained it for what timespan.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I actually had to look it up as I couldn't remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I really don't understand why PolyMC forked... Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available

[–] SaintWacko 28 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don't remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I remember reading an update which said that the company went back on most (or all?) the negative changes and it's ok to use again.

I didn't confirm it myself, but that's part of why the alternatives aren't seeing as much development now

[–] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

It was opt-out telemetry IIRC

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wasnt it something about data collection?

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It was, the company that bought out Audacity added a bunch of telemetry to it

[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Any good alternatives?

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 points 4 hours ago

I have used this as a drop-in replacement, with no complaints.

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago

I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.

[–] azthec@feddit.nl 4 points 7 hours ago

Maybe a bit niche, but if you're in the Scala ecosystem and seen what happened with Akka -> Apache Pekko. Version one of Pekko was a 1-1 rename of Akka

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I hope someone made STACER (a.k.a Bleachbit on roids) remastered
The owner of that project already abandoned it, it's sad STACER already had so....much potential compared to Bleachbit but no one wants to revive it

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Lately? Firefox...

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren't just "Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit"?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

It's Mozilla that's slowly enshittifying, Firefox itself is theoretically insulated from the worst decisions they could make, but those safeguards are going to be put to the test real soon I bet.

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