Hi Daniel, In my opinion, any contribution to an open-source project is most welcomed. And yeah helping with the translaions into different languages is a contribution that is much required to the FoodForce2 activity. I will definitely appreciate such a contribution. But still there is a difference between contribution and a fork. To have a fork one needs to have some major prior contribution to the project. Adding translations and changing the copyrights, and forget the credits of the people who have been working on a particular project for around 2 years, is probably, atleast in my opinion, ethically wrong. Regards, Mohit Taneja <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Daniel Drake <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2009/11/15 Daniel Drake <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>>: <div class="im">> 2009/11/15 Mohit Taneja <<a href="mailto:mohitgenii@gmail.com">mohitgenii@gmail.com</a>>: >> Well it seems to be an unmaintained fake release of the original FoodForce2 >> game. I guess only the copyrights have been changed. In fact, I went through >> the their homepage and saw that this organization is into doing such things >> only, they copy source code of open source activities, do minor tweaks and >> then upload it by their own credits. > > Well they have certainly contributed some new activities to Sugar > which I assume are their own, but this is indeed a bit odd. Is this > really the first you've heard of this fork? </div>And to confuse matters more.. surely you knew of Manusheel's involvement (or at least his interest) in your project well before the supposed fork date of June 23 -- I have a personal email in my inbox from May where Manusheel was persuading deployments to try out the new activity and provide feedback (I was in Paraguay at the time). He writes it as if you are all a team, seeta included, and suggests that it was even listed as a project on the SEETA website at that time. And see his name on <div class="im"><a href="http://blog.laptop.org/2009/05/08/food-force-2-makes-waves/" target="_blank">http://blog.laptop.org/2009/05/08/food-force-2-makes-waves/</a> </div>Anyway, it seems like the easiest thing to do here would be to give commit access to Manusheel's team to the original repository. It looks like they have just made the first change in their forked version, adding a spanish translation, and I imagine that's not a contribution you would turn down. Manusheel, in the open source world, when forking a project the common etiquette is to rename it to something substantially different. But in this case I suggest you simply dissolve the fork and attempt to work together, in the same place. Less work for everyone. Daniel </blockquote></div>