A fork where you diverge from the original is still a fork. Most long-lived forks that I hear about are things that have developed into their own projects and

A fork where you diverge from the original is still a fork. Most long-lived forks that I hear about are things that have developed into their own projects and have no intention of merging back to the original. Contrast with a short-term fork which will only live a few months and then will be hopefully be merged into the original; it will probably be so short-lived that people outside of the project won’t hear about it as a “fork” with its own distinct name. A “fork” isn’t only making a GitHub fork so that you can make a PR against the original because you found a typo on the readme.