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Originally Posted by vento
What the T&C states in github. Can anyone use identical code in commercial purpose? Do they need to give credit? Do they need to share modified code.
That's not how it works. Each program on github is supposed to have a license attached to it. These license vary in their definitions.
GPL is considered the most copyleft, and Linux uses v2. All the code + additional code must be open-sourced.
MIT is a popular, DWTFYW-style license. You can choose to keep the code open or closed.
I use MPL because I do not want people close-sourcing my code, but I understand it if people don't want their code open-sourced. If you use my program, you have to release my code + any changes to the original files to the end-user. Any file you add can be whatever you want.
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It could be that this guy is or has been one of your site users especially if signing in is required. no certainty but would think there is a chance.
Totally not what "open source" means. You can look at the source of any open source product, and you can reuse, modify, change, and examine the code. There is no clause in any open source code that says "you must create something unique."
Grue took an open source project and made it his own. That aligns with the spirit of open source.
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+publish a short notification about the shady dealings when users log in on some kind of a note users see once. I would think twice playing on a site doing shady stuff like that. Especially giving them my details.
if you can't handle open source, don't partake in it. Nothing at all shady about what the other guy did.