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Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#11

Post by sydbarrett74 »

Relevant portion below, taken from this page (https://dev.to/sadeedpv/someone-copied-my-code-on-github-and...):

'With the MIT license, you should really also put your copyright and license notices at the top of each source file in a comment in addition to the license file in the repo. This way if someone uses one or more files but not entire repo, your copyright notice and license declaration stays with your code, unless they deliberately remove it. With only a license file you risk someone who only needs one of your source files separating those notices from your code accidentally with no ill-intention toward you or your work.'

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#12

Post by seattle_spring »

not_your_vase wrote: post #4

The first thing that came to my mind after reading your post was the philmarilion from 4chan. Collecting these posts and submitting them with all these commentaries is.. a bit creepy. I find collecting stuff to be a good idea, but publishing them in this manner is another thing, seems to be a very knee-jerk reaction. When I compare the two projects, I do see that you are right, he obviously just copy-pasted, I do und…

Why do you think thieves should be treated with respect, and respond well to diplomacy?

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#13

Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #10
solardev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Won't the github timestamps show which came first?

Something curious is that the oldest tag I can find on Github from Elegant is from March 16 [1], while the oldest tag I can find from Outstatic is from March 26 [2] [1] https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/tree/v1.0-al... [2] https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/tags?after=v0.0.37

Commits tell a different story:

https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/commit/8d8d8... (March 2023)

https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/commit/76c82a05cf82896... (August 2022)

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#14

Post by serf »

not_your_vase wrote: post #4

The first thing that came to my mind after reading your post was the philmarilion from 4chan. Collecting these posts and submitting them with all these commentaries is.. a bit creepy. I find collecting stuff to be a good idea, but publishing them in this manner is another thing, seems to be a very knee-jerk reaction. When I compare the two projects, I do see that you are right, he obviously just copy-pasted, I do und…

>Why are you trying to shame him here, where your post will be compost in a matter of hours, instead of opening an issue or two (phrased more diplomatically) in his github project, and post the link here?

the social effects on HN are stronger than Github issues; surely you must realize that.

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#15

Post by ricardobeat »

I checked the source code in both projects and it seems that a fair amount of rework has happened already. They don’t really look alike beyond bits of structure and the basic layout.

This is exactly the intent of a MIT license. The only unfair aspect is that they seem to have removed the original license notice, which is a requirement.

Their project is MIT licensed too, so if you like what they’re doing you can play your Uno reverse card!

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#16

Post by None4U »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #13
JPLeRouzic wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something curious is that the oldest tag I can find on Github from Elegant is from March 16 [1], while the oldest tag I can find from Outstatic is from March 26 [2] [1] https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/tree/v1.0-al... [2] https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/tags?after=v0.0.37

Commits tell a different story: https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/commit/8d8d8... (March 2023) https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/commit/76c82a05cf82896... (August 2022)

commits can be overwritten, what is actually reliable here is GitHub's "event stream"

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#18

Post by AndreVitorio »

ricardobeat wrote: post #15

I checked the source code in both projects and it seems that a fair amount of rework has happened already. They don’t really look alike beyond bits of structure and the basic layout. This is exactly the intent of a MIT license. The only unfair aspect is that they seem to have removed the original license notice, which is a requirement. Their project is MIT licensed too, so if you like what they’re doing you can play…

The /source directory in his repo is 90% our code. But look, I'm not mad he is using our project, it's open source after all. I'm happy it is and people can do whatever with the code.

What I'm exposing here is an attempt at making people believe he is the author of said code. Not someone who took 90% of a project and is building something with it, but that he wrote the entirety of the code.

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#19

Post by AndreVitorio »

codegeek wrote: post #9

It is definitely unfair at say the least. I do see that their About text in Github has outstatic but that is it. If the code was directly copied pasted (regardless of MIT license), he should at least mention your project as a courtesy. This is why we can't have nice things. I don't know how to help you more but I do feel your pain and I wish there weren't people like this in the world. But they do exist.

Yes, he just added that. After a long discussion he said he was "about to do it" and it was just a big coincidence that I brought it up. After 6 months of going around claiming he wrote all the code.

Re: My open source project got stolen by a HN user

#20

Post by AndreVitorio »

None4U wrote: post #16
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Commits tell a different story: https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/commit/8d8d8... (March 2023) https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/commit/76c82a05cf82896... (August 2022)

commits can be overwritten, what is actually reliable here is GitHub's "event stream"

Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306029
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