Re: Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

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> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Derivation: When you start with something and make changes specific to
> me. The end result is a derived work. In the derived work, the
> maintainer doesn't look to the original for all improvements, but
> rather, makes their own changes on top of this state

I think this is more commonly referred to as a fork in the OSS world.

> Upstream: The place where the developers of software live, where they
> take bugs on their software and publish source code.

Ah, there's the important distinction, an upstream can only be
publishers of source code in your world view.  Good to know.
Jason

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