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Re:Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licens... by toast0 on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:31PM (#28885088)
The first thing to do is decide if you actually care. I try to do open source work so other people don't have to work as hard to redo what I did. If someone else wants to claim my work as theirs, it's annoying, but it doesn't prevent me from using my work and it may result in my work being more widely spread, so I guess it's fine. But that's just like my opinion, man.

If it bothers you enough to take action, and you've waited a reasonable amount of time for the other person to respond, your options are probably international copyright lawsuits or DMCA requests. Lookup the github dmca procedure and make a request with the proper information and go where it takes you. Expect to be called out as unreasonable, but whatever.

Re:Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licens... by gardnr on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:57PM (#28885175)
> If someone else wants to claim my work as theirs, it's annoying

yeah, this is probably it. It's just annoying that they have taken credit for my work while intentionally excluding me from the credit.

I don't have enough time or money to engage them on a legal level so I guess we'll just see how it plays out.

Re:Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licens... by slipmasterflex on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:39AM (#28885802)
Could you barrage their repo with ‘issues’ where you ask why they stole your work? I imagine the users would stumble upon that
Re:Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licens... by gardnr on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:57PM (#28900816)