Code Forking, Governance, and Sustainability in Open Source Software
Linus Nyman, Juho Lindman · Technology Innovation Management Review · 2013
IntroductionThis article addresses the question of how the right to fork open source projects – to use the source code of an existing program to start a new, independent version – works as a governance mechanism to provide sustainability in open source software. The concept of sustainability is under debate, with numerous rubrics against which the sustainability of a product