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remvze / moodist

🌲 Ambient sounds for focus and calm.
https://moodist.mvze.net
MIT License
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Which one is considered plagiarism when discovering a project that is completely identical to the current project ? #20

Closed xtay573269555 closed 6 months ago

xtay573269555 commented 8 months ago

The current: https://github.com/remvze/moodist

The other: https://github.com/geekyouth/moodist

ASafaeirad commented 8 months ago

Just check the git history.

https://github.com/geekyouth/moodist/commits/main/?after=9647f519682aef925ee863b02a7ac2441fb0e865+104

remvze commented 8 months ago

Hey there, I'm the original creator of Moodist. To prove it, you can either check the git history of their repo (as @ASafaeirad said), especially the footer component where they have replaced my name with their own, or you can check the license in their repo, where you can still find my name (i.e., Maze). As for why they have plagiarized my project without even changing the name or the logo, I am still clueless.

xtay573269555 commented 8 months ago

Ok. I suggest you to report it to github support.

giacomocerquone commented 7 months ago

I'm very sorry about this, but the actual problem is that even though he did something awful and disloyal, you @remvze decided to go for a MIT licence for this project, and it's almost obvious this happens sadly. Quoting your licence file now:

to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

And indeed he left a licence with your name in it https://github.com/geekyouth/moodist/blob/main/LICENSE

It sucks, but it happens. It actually happened the same with an old version of my own blog, and from that time forward I set the repo private.

Btw, I don't think another licence would have prevented this, and even changing it now won't solve anything.