Section 01
August 2005, and what a fork actually takes
The walkout, the trademark, and the name.
The open letter of 17 August 2005 was published, not leaked; the developers argued about structure rather than people, which is why the community could follow them.
4 pieces in this section
- The core team left in August 2005 and took the work with themMambo's development team resigned over a plan to move the trademark to a new foundation, forked the code, and continued under a different name.
- You can fork the code; you cannot fork the nameA trademark does not travel with a licence, which is why the fork required a new name and why the naming was done publicly.
- The name means all together, and it was chosen by voteJoomla comes from the Swahili jumla, and the naming process itself was a deliberate demonstration of how the new project intended to decide things.
- A foundation built to hold what the last one did notOpen Source Matters was created to hold the assets and the trademark, which was the structural fix for the thing that caused the fork.
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