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Forking a vivid software project is usually a bad thing and there are only few reasons when this action is considered legitimated. The most common of those reasons is a licence change of the project - this is what happened here.
The main author of this great piece of software, Rick Brewster, decided to change the licence for all further releases of Paint.NET [1] making this version the last one to licensed under MIT Licence (with exceptions for Artwork and the GPC library, limiting the whole software to non-commercial distribution, see src/Resources/Files/License.txt).

Any further releases include the restrictive clause "You may not modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, or create derivative works based upon the Software or any part thereof."

One year has passed since the last free sources of the project had been released, giving the authors time to change their minds. Their decision has to be respected, but the OpenSource community still has to be able to build upon the last version of this powerful tool.

Main goals of this fork are:

Linux port (which means porting it to mono basically)
replacing non-free parts (Artworks, General Polygon Clipper as those are only usable non-commercially, making this non-free software in the sense of OSI [2])

Of cause, all credits to the initial authors will remain, naturally new contributors will be credited as well.

If you are looking for a photo editing software for Windows, you may want to use the original Paint.NET as it has more features and might be better supported. The main focus of this project is to establish portability (and keep the last free Paint.NET code publicly availiable)