PLAGIARISM ALERT - SOMEONE IS STEALING MY WORK/TOOLS
SOMEONE IS STEALING MY WORK
Today I came across a post that was advertising something very similar to the tool I created the other week, known as the TIPPER. You can check my tool and my post about it by clicking HERE. I checked it out and looked into the code and quickly recognized my code. This dude has literally copied and pasted my work with a little modification to make it free for now, so he can charge later once his tool becomes popular, his post has made over $22.000 SBD by now. And what's even worse is that he's taking credit for his "hard work" in the comment sections. I did not give anybody, including @yuriks2000 , permission to copy my code/work, especially to do so without giving me credit whatsoever.
WHY DIDN'T I HIDE MY CODE?
His excuse and reply to my comment was that there is nothing on my github page that would suggest that he shouldn't steal my code and use it without giving me credit. I didn't know I should write that on my github page! How about the fact that there is nothing on my github page that says you can simply steal this work and use it without even giving credit to me? Unbelievable. Do you really want to trust your active key with someone like this? I wouldn't trust my active key with someone like him. But it's up to you. People ask me why did you not hide your code? Well that's the whole point of putting my work on github! To show the whole world that I'm not stealing your active key!
REQUEST FOR FLAGGING
I do not have much STEEM POWER but if I did I sure as hell would flag his post HERE. My request is from those who do have enough STEEM POWER to make a difference, to consider flagging him. I will leave a 100% flag on his post and would also appreciate if those have upvoted him would take their vote back and flag him instead. I went to his post and left a comment and replied to almost everyone, telling them about this incident. If you agree with my criticism of @yuriks2000 and want to support me, please consider upvoting and/or resteeming this post. And if you don't, please comment below. Any suggestion and/or feedback is welcome. I look forward to hearing from you all!
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Hey there @msg768! I have tried my best to remove flags from the post so that you can get the rewards like we agreed with you. Ausbitbank, luke and
reddust removed theirs flags from the post. I have tried to contact adm and phunk about removing their flags, unfortunately they would not listen. If you want you can give it a shot.
Sorry I can't change their mind either. They probably would have flagged you whether I wrote this post or not and they don't listen to me . They act according to their own conscience. I don't mind losing out on the rewards we agreed on. Peace...
I took it from github https://github.com/msg768/mysteemit and modified UI and backend. There is no sign of copyright on Github page.
According to Github license I am allowed to do that. You can read it here
Number 5. License Grant to Other Users
Any Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of your Content in repositories they control).
Can to you it is worth sharing remuneration with the author of an original code and to tell it participation in work on a code?
Forking on github does that automatically and everyone will know that this was originally created by me, but he hasn't forked it. He has literally stolen my work without giving credit.
Sorry for that, I forked it so that you receive credit.
No please don't. Because I do not want anyone to fork my work. I will write it in my profile now. And please refer to this comment where you see that github does not enforce any license on repositories. If a repository does not have a license like mine, you have to talk to the owner.
Ok, deleted this fork.
Sorry, but I acted according to their license not comments and now I am getting my other posts flagged, too. Don't you think that it is too much?
I spoke to @austbitbank earliner and he provided a more fair solution. He will remove the flag from post and you receive the full liquid credit for the post I made. I in turn will not use your code on steemtools.club
I agreed with @ausbitbank and he removed his flag. And I did not ask anyone to flag your other posts.
I know that you did not want anything like that to happen, but never mind what happened is in the past.
And thank you for understanding.
The fact that the Github license allow forking does not mean all sources their are free to copy and use.
Github's response to this question (2013 already):
Thank you very much for your support and this information from github's support team. I appreciate it. Do you have a link to this quote or question/answer?
Sure, here's the twitter link:
https://twitter.com/GitHubHelp/status/356103886228033537
Thanks a lot for this! :]
Just because you are allowed to do so doesn't mean people get along with it. Now people will flag your ass to the ground because they are also allowed to do so.
If you believe that you are right you can flag, I am not stopping you. But I copied this code like people copy Jquery and PHP code every day. Do you always credit Jquery on yourwebsite, no. But you sometimes use your website for commercial use, yes.
Those things are under open-source license. You don't need to credit them. My code was not under any license and you should have asked me before you copy it. I also noticed that you have copied unrelated files from my repository which are totally unnecessary for the TIPPER to work. This means that you do not have enough skills to implement something like this on your own. Yet you're taking credit for your "hard work" in the comment section and you're now promising not to use my code but implement your own(yet your app is still using mine). I doubt you can implement your own after looking into how you've copied mine.
Knowing the difference between right and wrong is one of the causes of good mental health. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should @yuriks2000.
You may find this helpful: Why You Should Care About Plagiarism and Fair Use.
Only a complete idiot would trust either of you guys or anyone else for that matter with their active key. Why the fuck would any sane person give you the ability to withdraw funds from their account.
As far as I'm concerned, you're both scammers for even asking for people active keys.
Your concern is very real on one hand, but hypocritical and immature on the other hand. I have put my code on github, and it is public for all to see, and my tool also runs on github, straight from the repository, the same way steemit.com, esteem and busy.org and pretty much every other trustworthy app that is designed to interact with the blockchain works.
It's not immature at all. It's simply common sense. Would you hand some stranger on the Internet the private keys to your bitcoin wallets? Of course you wouldn't. Handing over your steem active key is no different. As for all those other apps which do the "same", none of them require your active key, just your posting key.
Are you telling me that steemit.com, busy.org and esteem don't ask for your active key to transfer money? How do you transfer money on these apps without your active key? You're not making any sense...
Well, for most people, steemit is how they created their account in the first place. It's their wallet and has all their keys. The apps you listed are created by highly respected and trusted members of this community (but I still wouldn't give them my active key). You are neither of those things.
Also, if you'd tried using busy.org, you'd notice it doesn't even ask you for your active key and you sign in with your posting key through SteemConnect. Chainbb uses you posting key as well and they even provide a warning not to use your active key.
How do you transfer money on those apps? I don't know as I don't use them and don't even know if you can. I do use esteem, but only for notifications as the app is too buggy and slow for me to use for anything else.
Just like I wouldn't give people my bitcoin private keys, I sure as hell ain't giving people my steem active key for the exact same reason.
You're not giving me your active key either. You're putting it in a form that is designed the same way steemit.com, busy.org and esteem are designed. If I wanted to steal your key, I wouldn't be an idiot to put my code on github for everyone to see.
Why not? We know know that most users are not going to check the code on github. I'm not going to waste my time checking that code either to see if what you're saying is true. Besides, what's even the point of this service you've created when I can do the exact same thing using steemit anyway?
Here's are the facts:
Not throwing around the private keys that control the funds in your wallets in cryptocurrency security 101.
Ask those who use the service. Doing it manually on steemit.com or busy.org or esteem is going to take you forever. You don't check the code for steemit either yet you trust your active key with it. That's the hypocrisy that I was talking about. I doubt you would understand the code anyway so obviously you wouldn't check it. The point that I was trying to make was that the trust behind apps like steemit comes from the code being visible to the public. You still don't seem to get it... Oh well!
reSteemed
Be careful if you post your work on Github that you don't other to fork or copy because it is an open platform made for developers to share their work and allow others to improve it.
Github's license allows people to copy and states that if you post your work publicly know that it can be forked and copied. Unfortunately, your work @msg768 is publicly available. If you don't want people to copy or modify it, you should hide it from public view or Copyright it or delete it from Github.
Github license can be read here
Look at 5. License Grant to Other Users
Nice writing. Steemit needs good writers like you. I appreciate your patience and skill. Thumbs up! Upvoted you
stealing someones code, even if its up where it can be read, is still wrong, and moreso not giving credit where due either..
C'mon @yuriks2000. No amount of posturing and justifying is going to work. That was a bad idea. But you can make it right, and you can get another chance. The road you have chosen here leads nowhere. You can make a better choice.
Seems like filthy stuff.
Sadly the community is coming to the point where the whole web isn't good enough to rip off now these kind of people emerge from the depths of steemit.
@msg768 i really admire your work but my sp is close to nothing i hardly doubt it would make a difference if. I flag him though i do support your cause 🚩.
I wish you all the best brother. 🙏
Also may I aks how can i get a cool animation like yours at the end of your post
Thanks for your support! That one is free. You can copy the link and re-use it. I don't know the creator of it but it's free. A couple of people are using it and it's not just me.
Sounds wonderful :) thanks for the info and all the best for your steemit future 😊
Hmmm! This will be addressed.