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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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232 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 30 Nov 25 03:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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wyldfire ◴[30 Nov 25 06:18 UTC] No.46094326[source]▶
Plagiarism is a moral wrong.

But copyright infringement is a legal wrong (a civil liability).

Is what they're doing infringing on a copyrighted work? Or does it fail to uphold license terms? Many open source licenses have some amount of attribution as a requirement, so that'd be something to consider.

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bjt ◴[30 Nov 25 06:37 UTC] No.46094396[source]▶
It's addressed in the post. MIT license. Zigbook is not honoring the attribution requirement. A PR to change that was closed and obfuscated.
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1. anonnon ◴[30 Nov 25 08:03 UTC] No.46094774[source]▶
> Zigbook is not honoring the attribution requirement

It's crazy how many people treat MIT as if it were public domain.

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2. adrian17 ◴[30 Nov 25 09:57 UTC] No.46095333[source]▶
This probably depends on country, but AFAIK in most of europe, even in public domain, the „you can’t pass another’s work as your own” part of copyright is still active and doesn’t expire.