Did PieFed 'steal code' from Pylova? Let's look at what happened - PieFed
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This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out. A few months ago, someone made a new fork of PieFed, which they called ‘Pylova‘. […]

This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I have updated the post with some additional details - the timing of the two commits.

    There have been allegations that I did things differently in the second commit because I did the first one, then various things happened, then I did the second one (the one without the attribution they wanted) because of those various things. But we can see from the git history that the two commits are minutes apart and there simply isn’t enough time for things to have gone that way. It was one piece of work, done in one session, for the same reasons with the same state of mind.

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