Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do?

Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by krapp on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:38AM (#12115685)

You published this under an open source license that allows anyone to fork and modify it as they see fit, as long as they include the license with their fork[0].

If they did so, then all you can (and should) do is stop complaining about other people doing what you gave them explicit permission to do.

The entire point of open source is that the code you write doesn't belong to you, it belongs equally to anyone who wants it.

[0]https://github.com/guarinogabriel/Mac-CLI/blob/master/LICENS...

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Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by compassios on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:04PM (#12115889)

Thanks for your comment. Taking that license into account, should be there a reference to my project on the other project?

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Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by krapp on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:13PM (#12115956)

I'm not a lawyer, but it does look like they need to include the original copyright notice with your credit.

Of course, if they do, then there's not much you can do.

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