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Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by nativeit on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:00PM (#44460788)
You might have better luck if you provide a link to your code, but I rather suspect you left that out because you would probably struggle to gain sympathy from alleging the theft of https://cheatingdaddy.com/.

Honestly, I looked through both repos and while I didn't find any direct evidence for/against your assertion, it's a very boilerplate approach to connecting with LLM APIs, I don't imagine it would look much different if you both simply had similar ideas, and then used an agent to help write the code.

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by zero-sharp on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:02PM (#44460806)
If you scroll down in the xcancel link (posted in the same thread), you'll find side-by-side picture comparisons of the code, comments, libraries.
Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by nirui on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:27PM (#44460931)
There's actual good reason for that. the X Formally Known As Twitter company has a content weighting system that punishes external links, regardless where the link is pointed to. So apparently Mr. Soham did the smartest thing to give that post the best chance to spread.

BTW, the X Formally Known As Twitter company is not the only one who conduced the world to this, all big names do link restriction. Look what we've become, such nice world :)

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by fastball on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:04PM (#44460816)
He includes screenshots which (to me) do indicate a certain amount of lifting.

Also the project is open source and the website is at the end of the thread. The website has a GH link in the header.

What more do you want really?

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by sohzm on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:10PM (#44460855)
its not the best name tbh, i just made it as a meme but people take the name seriously and that hurts the case

ive posted the evidence in twitter thread link

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by nativeit on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:39PM (#44460960)
Yeah, once someone posted a link I could read, I saw that. Bummer, looks like they ripped it off and sounds like they're currently doing the usual backpedal. Sorry your project got the wrong kind of attention in this way, I also (eventually) read into your tone while reading through your repo, and I understand much of it is tongue-in-cheek. It softened my position a bit. Hope you enjoy better luck in your future endeavors.
Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by sebmellen on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:34AM (#44461415)
The appropriate thing would be to revise your initial comment.
Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by nativeit on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:53AM (#44465595)
What about my initial comment is incorrect?

Edit: Fun fact, I cannot edit my original comment. But over-zealous flaggers seem to have taken care of it on my behalf. Unclear as to what about that comment deserved flagging, I guess raising concerns for the OPs admittedly problematic project is broadly the same behavior as the racist troll account who was previously active in this thread. Well done moralizing my original moralizing. The irony is…well pretty mundane in this case, really.

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by sebmellen on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:47PM (#44467332)
You could name a project any number of completely weird and absurd and offensive names, and it would have no bearing on the matter at hand, which is that code was illegally stolen and relicensed without the consent of the author. This is not a moral issue.

You yourself admitted that your original comment was harsh after the author responded to you.

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by eddythompson80 on Friday July 04, 2025 @12:47AM (#44461206)
> its not the best name tbh

lol, I'll bet you $10 that the name is exactly why they got themselves into this mess. Had the name been something like "meeting-agent" or some corporate friendly name like that, they probably wouldn't have tried to hide it so much.

Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by xeromal on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:14PM (#44460875)
If you read the post, it has examples
Re:My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [li... by nativeit on Thursday July 03, 2025 @11:42PM (#44460973)
Today I learned about xcancel.