Excerpts from rowan schischka's message of 2016-07-12 13:38:26 +1200:

from the very end of the article posted: "It seems the argument came down to licensing rules, because an idea of moving Nano to Github was incompatible with the GNU license."

Can someone please explain this statement to me? I am completely out of the loop in understanding this.

it's simply the result of bad research. for starters, the is no fork. there is also no hostility. any claims thereof (such as the comment on hackernews by someone from FSF) are completely fabricated. the truth is here: http://www.asty.org/2016/06/23/whats-up-with-nano/ this was posted a few weeks before that article on the register was published. the statement above in particular can be explained by reading the discussions on their mailinglist: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.nano.devel/4689 in short: github is incompatible with benno's ideals of a free software project. this thread and the linked issue is also worth reading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.nano.devel/4915 greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co general manager realss.com mentor fossasia.org secretary blug.sh beijinglug.org pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/