[jhkaghjkga]

The main driver behind the initial fork isn't even a sysadmin, but an art student who initiated Devuan as part of an art project and his PhD thesis: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/11101

As a fun fact the thesis is released under a Creative Commons license, but states "no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the author's prior consent". Forbidding quotations and building further work on it is also an interesting approach to the idea of science.

[JdeBP]

That's boilerplate that Plymouth imposes, and not Denis Roio's choice. You'll find that this is fairly common, although the boilerplate varies from university to university. Here are some example rules from Durham, Brunel, Oxford, and Ulster, all with similar requirements to add such boilerplate.

* https://www.dur.ac.uk/graduate.school/current-students/submi...

* https://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/213107/...

* https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_document...

* http://www.ulster.ac.uk/academicservices/staff/PREPARATION%2...