Closed martijnhoekstra closed 4 years ago
It's not plagiarism, it is published under MIT license: https://github.com/barrett777/Heroes.ReplayParser/blob/master/Heroes.ReplayParser/Foole.Mpq/BitStream.cs#L1-L28
The MIT license lets anyone include it in their library, as long as they don't claim ownership, and include that license. As far as I know, the whole point of MIT license is to be very permissive with what you can do with it. That's why this Heroes.ReplayParser library is also under MIT license.
I decided to include MPQTool directly because I was having trouble publishing this library to NuGet otherwise. MPQTool hasn't been updated in years, and probably won't need any changes for the life of Hots anyway, so I think this is fine.
The package I downloaded very clearly states its author is Ben Barrett. Licenses have nothing to do with plagiarism.
Foole's MPQTool is published as source of this package. That's problematic for multiple reasons, among which: