Stolen work from you!

[G-Rowell]

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

[blurhash]

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.

[rpxs]

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?

[Milo123459]

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

PS: more RUST 😁

[G-Rowell]

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.

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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.

• A huge amount of repos (98, has taken some down in the last day)
• Repos had huge amount of code added in "Upload via web interface" commits
• Huge projects were 'finished' within 12 commits

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.

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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.

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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]

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.

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

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

Galen