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* [GCC] and egcs (egcs eventually became the new "official" gcc)
* [Mandrake] and RedHat (I think Mandrake was originally RedHat with [KDE]?)
* [Emacs] and XEmacs, both branches of which continue to thrive to this day.
* [XFree86] and [XOrg], where an unpopular change to the licensing terms of the former caused a wholesale defection of developers, distributors and users to the latter.
+* More recently, the forking of [cdrkit] off from <tt>cdrtools</tt>, because of a licence change to the latter. It remains to be seen how this one will play out.
Some interesting analyses of the pros and cons of forking are:
* Rick Moen's [Fear of Forking|http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html], subtitled "Why Linux Won't Work, And why being able to fork is still A Good Thing."
