[kstrauser]

Two open source dramas in one week? Get the popcorn. From one of the links[0]:

> I do not see him as qualified to keep this project maintainership and if I had the choice, would I remove him.

…where “him” is Tom Christie, aka lovelydinosaur, the original author from what I can tell, and the copyright holder from the license file.

I don’t know what’s going on, but if someone contributing to one of my projects, that I wrote, started a public conversation about how to remove me, my public response might appear as that person disappearing from the project.

Sure, feel free to follow the license and fork the project. Make it clear that it’s a fork, though. It feels misleading to describe it as a continuation of the existing project.

[0] https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/4088

[kw3b]

I agree here. I've actually never heard the term continuation used to describe a divergent fork. MkDocs might be unmaintained now but it's still licensed, which doesn't change or expire over maintenance issues or lack of activity. (I'm not arguing against the greater good of keeping MkDocs going, it's awesome and I've used it more than once, but a licensee doesn't have rights to "continue" MkDocs - that's up to the copyright holder, the remedy for a user is to fork under the terms of the license).

[kstrauser]

Oops, I noticed too late to edit this, but Christie goes by a different name now. I said "Tom" because that's what the license file says. Sorry, lovelydinosaur! No disrespect intended.