←back to thread

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

(twitter.com)
931 points sohzm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
Show context
buremba ◴[04 Jul 25 11:57 UTC] No.44463757[source]▶
The clone now has more stars on GitHub than the original work, CheatingDaddy. What's funny is that in a week, most likely nobody will remember that the code was stolen, thus Pickle will probably be fine with their new, shiny, popular project, which will be featured in GitHub Trends.

It's the same with another Soham, who was moonlighting for years. I would not be surprised if he starts a company soon, given the fame he has gained.

Marketing wins.

replies(4): >>44464439 #>>44464882 #>>44465266 #>>44465649 #
1. pxc ◴[04 Jul 25 16:00 UTC] No.44465649[source]▶
I've seen this kind of thing happen even with very small projects, where there's no marketing department or business goal attached. I've seen attempts to erase the history of forks, projects repurposed from others in order to retain GitHub stars unrelated to the repo's new purpose... not for a supply chain attack or something like that, but out of sheer vanity. Sometimes I see people talk about those projects on HN, and if you weren't there when it happened and very interested in some very niche software at the time, you'd never know.

It's a wild world.