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+title: Did you fork?
+parent: FAQ
+---
+
+# Did you fork the Nagios Plugins?
+
+TL;DR: No.  They forked us.
+
+Long answer:
+
+Initially, there was a Nagios Plugins project.  Today, there is both a [Nagios
+Plugins][nagios-plugins] project and a [Monitoring Plugins][monitoring-plugins]
+project.  The answer to the question of who forked whom probably isn't
+immediately obvious, especially for those who weren't involved in the mess.
+It'll depend on how exactly you define a "fork", and it may not be all that
+important anyway.
+
+However, because you asked, here's our view on the happenings.
+
+Originally, there was a Nagios Plugins project that was maintained by us;
+i.e., a [team][team] of volunteers not affiliated with [Nagios
+Enterprises][enterprises].  In 2011, we transferred the `nagios-plugins.org`
+domain to Nagios Enterprises on their request.  This transfer was coupled with
+an [agreement][agreement] that we would continue to run the project
+independently.  Early in 2014, Nagios Enterprises copied most of our web site
+and changed the DNS records to point to their web space instead, which then
+served a slightly modified version of our site including the tarballs we
+created.  This was done without prior notice.  Presumably, their
+[reasoning][reasoning] for this move was that they weren't happy with us
+[mentioning Icinga and Shinken][mentioning] on our home page.
+
+So, today there are two projects:
+
+One driven by the team that lost its domain, but that did the actual
+maintenance work in the past, and that continues to maintain the same project
+with the same infrastructure (e.g., the GitHub [repositories][repositories]
+and [trackers][trackers], the [mailing lists][support], and the [automated
+test builds][tests]) under the new name.
+
+The other project is driven by the company that controls the domain.
+
+So, if you ask us (as you did by definition when reading this): They clearly
+forked us, not vice versa.  We just see two differences to a "typical" fork
+which makes this case less obvious:
+
+1. The project that has been forked didn't own its domain name.
+2. The project that performed the fork did so without showing any previous
+   development activities.
+
+[nagios-plugins]: http://www.nagios-plugins.org/ "Nagios Plugins"
+[monitoring-plugins]: index.html "Monitoring Plugins"
+[team]: team.html "Monitoring Plugins Development Team"
+[enterprises]: http://www.nagios.com/about/company "Nagios Enterprises"
+[agreement]: news/domain-transfer.html "Domain Transfer Agreement"
+[reasoning]: archive/devel/2014-January/009420.html "Reasoning of Nagios Enterprises"
+[mentioning]: archive/devel/2014-January/009428.html "Response to Nagios Enterprises"
+[repositories]: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/repositories "GitHub Repositories"
+[trackers]: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/issues "GitHub Issue Tracker"
+[support]: support.html#mailing-lists "Mailing Lists"
+[tests]: tests.html "Test Results"
+
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