SplashyStudio
This seems familiar
Ya this is infringing on our copyright as you did not give any credit.
Forking our repository is an easy way to do that.
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I know you made a video. I know that's a rickroll. You still need to give credit to us as you stole most of our website without copyright.
Alright, just please give me the repository link incase I haven't already.
At least I have differences like adding gradients or not as much stuff because I didn't have much to say.
@RedGuy12
Sorry if my work looks the same as yours. I really loved your layout and may have used the same one. I'll be sure to give credit on mine.
Maybe a collab in the future? No hard feelings :)
@RedGuy12
Sorry if my work looks the same as yours. I really loved your layout and may have accidentally used the same one. I'll be sure to give credit on mine.
Maybe a collab in the future? No hard feelings :)
What do you mean "accidentally" you had to have gone to the repo, selected all the code, copied, pasted, changed some css variables and links, and done. That's not an "accident". You can't just do that and call it an accident. You can fork the repo, if you want, you could ask the creators of scratchaddons.com if you can use their code and negotiate that, but you can't just say you "accidentally" copied scratchaddons.com verbatim.
In addition to that, you tricked the 13 people who starred this repo, thinking that you wrote this code. That unfairly gives you the credit for writing this code, and it takes away from the proper credit being given to people like @RedGuy12 and others for creating the original website.
Oops! My bad. I'll tell you what really happened. I went to your website, opened Dev Tools and clicked Sources... just because, it's a real thing. Besides it doesn't look "exactly" 100% like the code for ScratchAddons' repository called website-v2, or if that's even the right repository for the current Scratch Addons website. Sorry if I've written some of the apology wrong as if I never know what I'm talking about, I took that out now. Sorry for casuing something so controversial.
At least I changed some of the code for the very bottom of the footer, so it now says:
© 2022 MWB | Layout inspired by scratchaddons.com
I hope that's better.
Yet another difference: You said website-v2 was made using Hugo, well… mine wasn't, so that's why I even decided to use Sources from Dev Tools. :neutral_face:
I literally never like… thought this kind of day would ever come to me. :astonished: :sweat: :fearful:
The layout was not inspired, it was copied, as were the styles, even the phrasing and text for most of the website.
Sorry if my work looks the same as yours.
it's not mine it's @hans5958's
Besides it doesn't look "exactly" 100% like the code for ScratchAddons' repository called website-v2,
Because website-v2 is made with Hugo, then compiled down to a full raw static HTML page.
or if that's even the right repository for the current Scratch Addons website.
It is.
© 2022 MWB | Layout inspired by scratchaddons.com
You can't copyright our code. And it's not inspired by,
it was copied, as were the styles, even the phrasing and text for most of the website.
Yet another difference: You said website-v2 was made using Hugo, well… mine wasn't, so that's why I even decided to use Sources from Dev Tools. 😐
Hugo just generates the raw HTML from various HTML and Markdown files we provide to it.
I understand that what I did was not cool. I am going to work this week to change it. I'm still pretty new to this stuff (I'm still a kid), and you did inspire me. But I realize that mine is way too similar to yours, and I will fix it. I really do apologize, I messed up and I'm owning it. I hope you will accept my apology and we can all move on.
Hello, website maintainer here. I saw your video about it, commented on it, then got tagged here. I have time to burn off, so here it is. Apologizes for not-so-good English here.
As a software developer facing in this area, I'm assuming good faith on you, and you just forgot or did not know what you need to do to follow an open source license. I'm going to explain to you about this.
A license is a document that explains how something can be used or redistributed. It comes with various degree of permissions, but most times in the context of open source world, it is used to allow people to use and redistribute something.
There are lots of real-world examples of it. Sites like Wikipedia, Fandom and Scratch uses CC-BY-SA, and YouTube uses their own license. In software there are MIT, GPL, Apache etc. I'm going to focus with two licenses.
Do you know why when you click the remix button on a Scratch project, you would have the original project linked to your project? That's because Scratch projects are licensed with CC-BY-SA, which needs you to credit the original author and share the project with the same license. As I said, Scratch helps you to do these duties by giving a link to the original project, while sharing it on the Scratch website again already meant licensed with CC-BY-SA.
The same also applies with GPL, what the website is licensed with. In fact, CC-BY-SA and GPL is in the same group of licenses, called "copyleft" (that's the meaning of the rotated copyright beside the date shared). It fundamentally works the same as CC-BY-SA, credit the original author, and share the project with the same license. Put simply, while Scratch helps you with this, you need to do it yourself in something like GitHub. Last time, you haven't credited the original source, while sharing it without license, which means "all rights reserved," which is basically not the same license. In works outside of Scratch, you need to put the license along with your work. In software, it is a LICENSE file that you put on the root directory.
Now, you can ask me, "what are you going to do? Are you going to call the cops to catch me?" Well, no. In Scratch, I can just report using the report button. In GPL, I could also write them an e-mail. But most likely I won't do it, so it's just ethics, which I hope you can appreciate. It's the same when I recorded your Scratch project, add some edits to it, and telling you that "this is original." I'm sure you will be disappointed.
Regarding you using the source code or not, you could argue that the compiled code is the source code (which also hosted on GitHub), but I'll just assume that it is a basic use and derivate, which, in GPL, still requires you to use the same license. (This is why I don't want to use GPL outside SA)
I won't confuse you more by describe you any complicated implications about GPL, like to not distribute a closed version. Put simply, I just expect that you would do the same duties as you would remix a Scratch project.
Have a good day, my friend, and good luck with your works.
I'm still a kid
we all are here lol
I am going to work this week to change it.
so really all we're asking you to do is to:
- copy the LICENSE file from SA to this repository
- credit Scratch Addons on the README and/or website for the design and code
thanks
also it's kinda annoying when you put things into 5 different posts when you can just make one
Bruh, I made a video: youtube.com/watch?v=9vSeRMM4CV8
also you look legit 5 in that yk you need to be 13+ to have a github or youtube channel
LOL I didn't know if it was yours since this is collaborative
i mean, lots of people, including me, contributed, but hans made most of it
also you look legit 5 in that yk you need to be 13+ to have a github or youtube channel
Wait, wasn't that like a meme clip? Also @MWB6763 from that video it really seems like you're bragging about copying the ScratchAddons website, and over here you're saying your super sorry and:
Sorry if my work looks the same as yours. I really loved your layout and may have accidentally used the same one. I'll be sure to give credit on mine.
So you made a video mocking ScratchAddons and bragging about copying the website, then say you accidentally copied the website? At least be honest. All you need to do to fix this is
- copy the LICENSE file from SA to this repository
- credit Scratch Addons on the README and/or website for the design and code
(also @RedGuy12 shouldn't that be and, not and/or?)
Chill, Explo, it's fine. It's called "kids playing around", and I'm fine with it.
Chill, Explo, it's fine. It's called "kids playing around", and I'm fine with it.
Yeah, sorry, got a little worked up, I didn't even do anything for the current version of the SA website. It is a bit annoying to see it copied, but ig if the kid's like 6 and coding that's fine so idrc.
I'm gonna take credit for exposing Splashy Studios since I found their YouTube comment on one of our videos. (It's deleted now)
cool down bruh we're all coders here it doesnt any make much difference in the long run just credit other peoples code and everything works out fine 😎
just credit other peoples code and everything works out fine 😎
That's the problem. They aren't giving proper credit.