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dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 6 months ago

For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

www.theregister.com

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For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

www.theregister.com

dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 6 months ago
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Pie Adblock called out for copying uBlock Origin code
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And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution
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    22•6 months ago

    Isnt that a GPL violation?

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      Yes, it sounds like they were violating GPL.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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      9•6 months ago

      Yes it is

    • dantheclammanOP
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      24•6 months ago

      Yes, as mentioned in the first sentence of the article

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