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Stolen work from you!

Open G-Rowell opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

Hi,

your repo here,

Has been stolen & re-uploaded by the GitHub user: https://github.com/5R33CH4

Here is their repo in which they've stolen your work, and attributed it to themselves: https://github.com/tesseract-org/linky

They also have a GitHub org, where they also have some stolen work: https://github.com/tesseract-org.

Checkout their all their personal repos...

I'm sorry to bring you this bad news, this user has stolen >50 repos so you should consider reporting them to GitHub.

Galen

G-Rowell avatar Sep 27 '21 13:09 G-Rowell

Hey @G-Rowell,

This is my GitHub alternate account that I use in school.

I would have considered proceeding with a DMCA Takedown Request, but I haven't due to privacy issues. As I am still a minor, I don't want to have any interaction whatsoever with lawyers or disclose my address when submitting a request of this kind.

As far as the user goes, I've seen him copying other repositories like phineas.io without ANY attribution whatsoever, and although I wish for this to be curbed, I don't have the resources to submit a Takedown Request, so I may just report for abuse and provide a reason.

I really appreciate you notifying me of this though, so I will DM said user on Discord and sort out the issue.

blurhash avatar Sep 27 '21 17:09 blurhash

Just commenting to confirm what @blurhash said and to once again say thank you sincerely for telling me this.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you find out that the repository was mine?

rpxs avatar Sep 27 '21 22:09 rpxs

F's in the chat fish. Sorry about this one, and hope this'll get sorted.

PS: more RUST 😁

Milo123459 avatar Sep 27 '21 22:09 Milo123459

Really glad I can 'help'......I do feel bad for bringing this issue up, but I'm sure we'd all rather know then not.


In my copy-pasted warning message I probably should've disclosed for transparency,

I am an org member of NvChad: https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad A 6.7k star NeoVim config.

I have a lot of spare time this week, hence my little investigation.

We had this user join our community and offer things like a free domain name.

I was first clued into possible issues from the user when I heard that the /r/unixporn admins banned them from their Discord for "trolling & not knowing how open source licenses work". (this is the unixporn public Discord, you might have to join it first?)

I then took a 2 minute look at their GitHub profile, and could tell that something was very wrong.

This peaked my curiosity enough to delve into one of the repos properly, I noticed things like Patreon links for this user.....even though they've never posted their Patreon anywhere else?

So I Googled the starting lines from the README or the GitHub project description, with the search token site:github.com, and found the exact project this user stole from.


This user had already been told to stop before I found them. This user was almost given admin status inside of our org. This user has stolen ~80 repos, and attributed them as his own. This user also has an org where they steal repos.


I hope this was at least an entertaining read 😁

Happy to provide transparency, I probably should've with all my original comments.

Galen

G-Rowell avatar Sep 28 '21 02:09 G-Rowell

Worth saying,

I completely understand not taking the DCMA route, I agree there are risks with it.

You don't have to do anything at all if you wish, I just want to inform some of the people who are victims of the theft.


I hope this doesn't put you off of any development or open source in general, don't let one person drag you down!


Feel free to contact me if need be, best wishes.

Galen

G-Rowell avatar Sep 28 '21 02:09 G-Rowell