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- Hudson is a free continuous integration (CI) tool written by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in Sun. [1]

- Oracle took control of Hudson as part of their Sun acquisition.

- Hudson devs wanted to move the infrastructure from Java.net to Github due to frustration with Java.net.

- Oracle objected the move to Github. Oracle said they owned the trademark to the Hudson name and the devs were free to fork under a different name if they wanted to. [2]

- Devs forked Hudson as Jenkins. [3]

- BONUS: Hudson also moved to Github. [4]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)

[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/cf0d72a7d97f...

[3]: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins

[4]: http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...