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932 points sohzm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source

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JonChesterfield ◴[04 Jul 25 10:38 UTC] No.44463274[source]▶

"Fair enough. Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first. We’ve now revised it. Thanks for your contribution."

We didn't notice that we copied your codebase, changed the name then pretended to have built it in four days?

Good grief.

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1. pxc ◴[04 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44465698[source]▶

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This isn't just a license compliance issue! Even if it were compliant with the license, like if the license has been a permissive license with no attribution requirement, this is still sleazy and plagiaristic behavior. Sometimes (often!) what is right exceeds the legal bare minimum.

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