[Shish2k]

> The accepted definition of a software fork is a copy of > an existing project that is independently developed. > ... > It doesn't matter which people do or do not work on the > project at this point

Surely if the definition is "independently developed", then which people are developing it is the only thing that matters?

[binarycrusader]

The independently developed (in my mind) is not referring to the people developing it, but rather the fact that the new copy is developed independently of the old project.

As an example, you can have the same set of developers on a new project, but as long as it's a copy of an old project, most people still expect that to be called a fork since the development of that copy is independent of the original.