Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit

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FabCH•about 1 hour ago

Surprisingly many people in the linked Reddit thread seem to think that open source license means Google can re-license the code and strip the author info.

Which is the one thing you absolutely cannot do.

bitpush•5 minutes ago

I took a look at the code, and it seems the author info was in pyproject.toml which is not license.

if there was a comment that said // TODO(username) and google removed all comments, is that violating any license?

bananaflag•28 minutes ago

They confuse it with public domain, which means exactly that.

gnabgib•33 minutes ago

Discussion (147 points, 4 days ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668181

hungryhobbit•34 minutes ago

Sounds like they need a good copyright lawyer.

It seems like an open and shut case, and I hear this Google company might have a few $$$ to pay for a settlement ...

augment_me•23 minutes ago

We are beyond this now, if you complain, they can have an agent rewrite it and then it's not copied anymore. It doesn't matter and the bigger wallet wins, let it go.

MarleTangible•about 1 hour ago

We were blaming Bambu Lab, but apparently Google is no different.

Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit

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