I'm not familiar with Block chain terminology, so I was not aware of the collision. A previous response in the thread [1] also contains "hard fork", which is p

I'm not familiar with Block chain terminology, so I was not aware of the collision. A previous response in the thread [1] also contains "hard fork", which is probably why I and possibly others have repeated it here. It could be a trend, but my differentiation (here at least) is that a "hard" fork means that the maintainers themselves are splitting from the original project while also forking the original code base. It would probably make more sense to just call it a "fork" :). [1]: https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004329.html https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-N...