Re:Code Thief at Large: Marak Squires / JimBastard (Reddit D...
by lhorie on Thursday November 25, 2010 @11:45AM
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No offense, but this whole thing sounds like a overblown silly crusade against a guy you don't like.
Sure the guy isn't the most polite person in the world, and his definition of "projects" are a bit of a stretch, but, seriously, look at, say, the jquery.dataSelector.js "theft exhibit C" and tell me how else you would keep code that you found in a blog post in a github repo.
Sure, maybe it'd be courteous to just add a comment saying where code came from, but some things in that "exhibit" list are MIT licensed, and afaict, those don't even require attribution to the original author.
Re: "His "say.js" is just a shell-out to the Mac's "say" command."
Yes, but they're 15 lines of code he wrote. Hardly a "project", but still, not anywhere near "theft" either.
Sure the guy isn't the most polite person in the world, and his definition of "projects" are a bit of a stretch, but, seriously, look at, say, the jquery.dataSelector.js "theft exhibit C" and tell me how else you would keep code that you found in a blog post in a github repo.
Sure, maybe it'd be courteous to just add a comment saying where code came from, but some things in that "exhibit" list are MIT licensed, and afaict, those don't even require attribution to the original author.
Re: "His "say.js" is just a shell-out to the Mac's "say" command."
Yes, but they're 15 lines of code he wrote. Hardly a "project", but still, not anywhere near "theft" either.
Can we move along now?