Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do?

Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by cr3ative on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:25PM (#12116055)

If you're referring to the project which cites yours as "a great source of inspiration", they are materially different. The idea of a shell-script collection for common admin tasks is not unique.

A quick look between the two (if my suspicion is correct) shows the new one being pared down to tasks which are universal to OS X management, whereas yours has things which appear to be useful primarily to you (magento configuration?)

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Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by sleazebreeze on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:29PM (#12116083)

The OP has even opened an issue on that other project's github and discussed it with the author of that other tool. The other author was very polite and explained clearly that it is not plagiarized or ripped from Mac-CLI.

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Re:Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do? by cr3ative on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:33PM (#12116126)

So in summary, from that issue you've referenced, it's a clean code implementation (no code from OP's project) and has different goals and abilities.

In that issue OP opened, they have demanded to be credited at the top of the README.

This seems very unreasonable.

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