Title should be updated to make it clear this is an interview cheating project. It’s quite ironic
> It’s quite ironic
Or rather consequential? ;-)
My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
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Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#192An app which is build for cheating complains about cheating ...
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#193Hi everyone, this is Daniel from the Pickle team. Glass is a new open source project from us that we plan to build on and improve. We built several original features for it like live summaries, real-time STT Transcript and one-click "Ask" from summary that we're very excited about. However in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache. This was incorrec…
If you had any semblance of respect for the work of others and what is right you would sincerely apologize and shut the project down instead of rolling with it.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#194Hi everyone, this is Daniel from the Pickle team. Glass is a new open source project from us that we plan to build on and improve. We built several original features for it like live summaries, real-time STT Transcript and one-click "Ask" from summary that we're very excited about. However in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache. This was incorrec…
Hard to say that your work isn't derived from a GPL project if you quite openly are reimplementing a GPL project you used at the core of your own project.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
GGP was clearly in the context of “how would YC evaluate this pre-funding?” rather than “how would outsiders evaluate YC?” but 15 seconds of search turned up: https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics
> 15 seconds of search turned up ...some latent passive aggressiveness and YC's founder ethics code not YC's own ethics code. You need an anchor for the chain of trust. That must be the VC's (YC in this case) integrity and ethics code first. You stopped reading after the first few words, misunderstood even those, and rushed to answer didn't you? I addressed exactly how to evaluate ethics and integrity prefunding, and…
I don’t believe I misunderstood these words of yours, and provided you a ready reference to check for yourself whether YC had a code of ethics and whether that code contained the elements you were hand-wringing about.
> If YC has no ethics code, that's your answer right there. If they do but it fails to mention basic things like lying, cheating, deceiving especially when done intentionally, bingo again.
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> YC had means to check for this prefunding
How would YC check in December 2024 for a copyright violation that was discovered in July 2025 and probably happened in 2025 during the batch (after funding)?
This is indeed a problem that Pickle/YC have to deal with, but I'm not nearly convinced that this was findable in 15 seconds pre-funding.
YC's funded over 4000 companies. How many have had ethics scandals of any size? Less than 5%? Less than 2%? They're betting on founders, probably rejecting some on ethics grounds, and trying to nudge those funded to stay ethical while being aggressively fast. If they're hitting over 95% "no scandals", that's pretty good from a 2 page application and 15 minute interview process.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the developer, but here is his repo: https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy
As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions. Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.
When interviewers use LLM gargbage to filter out participants, expect candidates to do the same.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the developer, but here is his repo: https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy
As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions. Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.
> because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience. Being a great software developer does not make you a lawyer (not even a bad lawyer).
Forking an open source repo and claiming you built something in 4 days does not make you a great software developer either though.
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#199Is this from the same Soham that is doing the "job stacking" scam to many companies? These people make the tech HR a nightmare for all others and a big reason for the back to office drive
https://www.theverge.com/news/697846/soham-parekh-startups-m...
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.
> because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience. Being a great software developer does not make you a lawyer (not even a bad lawyer).
You don't need to be a lawyer to understand you can't just copy others' IP without checking if you're allowed to.
By your argument, I can just torrent moviez and appz because I'm not a lawyer and can't be bothered with minutae of copyright law.