Quoth matthpmore...@gmail.com:
> I know it's subjective, but a fork implies to me that the goals and
> methods of the forking developers are different from the original
> software, maybe eventually leading to a completely contrasted
> software, with different environment, tools and inner workings, like
> Android is to Linux.  That's why I wanted to clarify this question.

More commonly, forks remain similar.

Xorg vs xfree86.
Libreoffice vs Openoffice
Mariadb vs MySQL
OpenBSD vs NetBSD
Blink vs Webkit
libav vs ffmpeg
etc, etc.


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