Stop caring about this. You should be happy that people think your project is useful.
[deleted]
What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
31–40 of 51 posts
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#32Not the first repo he is plagiarizing. One of the first things I see when visiting his profile:
https://github.com/obaraelijah/redis-proto
From:
https://github.com/dpbriggs/redis-oxide
But Elijah Samson / obaraelijah / elly sam has started removing or making repositories private now that he has been found out.
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like he's also made everything non-public. Way too much bad publicity, so he'll probably do it again under a different organization. Cause now when someone searches for this "Sahomey Technologies" they find out he's blatantly copying github repos to pad his business. On a side note, this person has 132 repos on his profile. They're probably trying to game the whole thing to make it seem like they have an active…
Let's hope Elijah Samson, AKA obaraelijah, AKA elly sam, AKA Sahomey Technologies, AKA Sahomey-Technologies will learn from this.
Oh wow, looks like he's also published it to the rust package repository.
The rabbit-hole deepens.
https://crates.io/crates/sahomedb/0.2.1
Also bragging about it on Medium: https://medium.com/@ellysam/introducing-sahomedb-a-high-perf...
Also another pseudonym or his "team": https://medium.com/@samowvance10/the-purpose-of-my-project-a...
At least searching for some of these entries links back to this HN post.
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#34Someone copied a gist of mine from 2011, changed my name and made a blogpost about it.
Let them be, no point in wasting time worrying about small fraudsters. Cut them off and blacklist them so you will never have anything to do with them.
I recommend not to shame them publicly if you live in a country without freedom of speech (most of the world except from the USA) or they might have grounds for suing you for defamation (even if you are right and you can prove it).
Source: Someone scammed my landlord (and me) for tens of thousands and now he added me on LinkedIn. He's doing fine, probably doing some other real estate scams on top of some small BS companies that keep failing every 2-3 years (probably to avoid paying taxes). The police is not interested. The court case was dropped. Really tempted to out him online but lawyers don't recommend it. Justice is pretty weak in our times.
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#35This guy is also copying medium posts without attribution, first one I looked at:
https://awstip.com/using-nginx-as-an-api-gateway-ce7781c712b...
Stolen from: https://marcospereirajr.com.br/using-nginx-as-api-gateway-7b...
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#36This guy is also copying medium posts without attribution, first one I looked at: https://awstip.com/using-nginx-as-an-api-gateway-ce7781c712b... Stolen from: https://marcospereirajr.com.br/using-nginx-as-api-gateway-7b...
Nice find! This person is so blatant with their plagiarism, he doesn't even bother to change a thing.
Here's another one: https://medium.com/towardsdev/managing-complex-rust-workspac... Blatantly copied from: https://matklad.github.io/2021/08/22/large-rust-workspaces.h...
Another: https://towardsdev.com/understanding-and-implementing-enums-... Copied from: https://oliverjumpertz.com/blog/rusts-enums-explained/
And another: https://towardsdev.com/rust-what-inline-can-do-for-your-prog... Copied from: https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/09/inline-in-rust.html
More: https://towardsdev.com/idiomatic-caching-in-rust-133784ed114... Copied from: https://matklad.github.io/2022/06/11/caches-in-rust.html
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then fill the DMCA form.
I see. How should I do that? Report repository?
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#38I think the developer doing this is: https://github.com/obaraelijah And it looks like he's done the exact same with a pen-testing project called Kraken: https://github.com/myOmikron/kraken-project Probably trying to pad out his Github for freelancing.
I laughed a little at "Open Source Enthusiast". Seems like he's enthusiastic for the wrong reasons, and missing the point of open source
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like he's also made everything non-public. Way too much bad publicity, so he'll probably do it again under a different organization. Cause now when someone searches for this "Sahomey Technologies" they find out he's blatantly copying github repos to pad his business. On a side note, this person has 132 repos on his profile. They're probably trying to game the whole thing to make it seem like they have an active…
Let's hope Elijah Samson, AKA obaraelijah, AKA elly sam, AKA Sahomey Technologies, AKA Sahomey-Technologies will learn from this.
Fake it 'til you ma^D^D go to prison (unlikely, I know).
Re: What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
#40It's Apache licensed. Clause 4 does say some things about accreditation, etc. IANAL, but simplifying the [what-I-call] legal enumeration, it says: "You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright notices from the Source form of the Work". Did you put any copyright notices in your work? If not, it may be too late, because they can continue to distribute the old version th…
> Did you put any copyright notices in your work? If not, it may be too late, because they can continue to distribute the old version that did not have copyright notices.
This is not how copyright works. Without a license, default copyright law applies, and no one can make any copy of the code and profit from it, even if published on Github. Copyright protection is automatic under the Berne Convention, implemented by the US Copyright Act and EU Directive 2001/29/EC, meaning no registration or notice is required for protection.