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Discussion on: What's the proper etiquette for forking an abandoned repo?

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David J Eddy

If the project does not already, create a CONTRIB.md , add a block of text at the time being very specific that your project is a fork of the source and will abide by the source licensing terms. As @ edA-qa mort-ora-y points out once your fork is up to date and running inform GitHub to disconnect your fork and become stand alone w/ credit to source repo.