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The evidence clearly shows it was not a 'dumb mistake'

They claim they wrote the whole thing in 4 days. They did not attribute the original author in ANY way.

They clearly showed they intended to steal the authors work and sell it as if they wrote it. YC has just become such a dumpster fire if that kind behaviour is even remotely accepted or called a 'dumb mistake'



Original Author should have put 4 lines atop each source with then as copyright holder. https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy/blob/master/LICENSE#.... I sometimes make GPL and forget that bit too


The default license is “you're not allowed to copy this”, so the lack of a header still doesn't excuse “I didn't know this was GPL”.




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