[PuercoPop]

> "hostile fork" -- the entire notion is nonsensical.

It is not. It is based in experience. See the xMule/aMule fork. A hostile fork is when the fork project starts bad-mouthing the original project and its maintainers.

The notion that forking is by itself hostile is non-sense.

[nitrogen]

If I'm remembering right, something similar kind of happened with uBlock and uBlock Origin, but it was the original maintainer who came back and forked after the new maintainer became hostile, or something like that.