#suemicrosoftforstealing

Here is a tool-detected subset of copy/pasted lines in the initial commit of peerd: https://gist.github.com/corneliusroemer/c58cf0faf957d9001b58d4ed14cb0a21

This sort of behavior is despicable, and the people at Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for stealing someone else’s hard work and claiming it as their own. They need to properly give credit to the original creator.

The original author should send a DMCA notice to have this repository removed for theft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750535

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This is the biggest reason why I am very weary about doing any open source project at all, corporations taking advantage of your work and discredit you. (Not to say that I don't do any open source project, but just a lot less involved in them.)

For all open source maintainer, if the corporation invite you to discuss your project, demand that they pay you $10,000/hr paid in advance at minimum and have it in writing that the payment made to you is irrevocable, stop doing charity work for them.

This is why no open source project should use the MIT license: AGPL would have prevented this from happening, and it still would have allowed the original author to charge money for a difference license.

This is why no open source project should use the MIT license

False, please don't dictate other open source developers what to do. Especially suggesting using the biggest cancer in the FOSS community (maybe besides SSPL) as a cure. I literally spent dozens of hours reimplementing basic stuff to write a truly open-source (BSD-licensed, to be specific) link shortener engine.

Also why FreeBSD exists as a FOSS project independent of GNU.

That being said, MS has to do proper credits, and should at least throw some coins to the original creator.

Crooks!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm still not sure that the fixes made for this are actually fixes. Putting the copyright notices in the actual classes is good, but the readme only thanks Phillip for his "insights" when it's actually just full portions of his code.

@avtakkar I think Microsoft still remains in violation. All previous commits - without the copyright attribution - still infringe Spegel's copyright, given they are still available and distributed.

Where's the upvote?