Ask HN: Someone is taking my work on GitHub. What should I do?

9 points

10 years ago

So my original work is here: https://github.com/jathu/UIImageColors. The person who copied my work is here https://github.com/robipresotto/imageColors.

As you can see, he copied everything but my name. When I did try to open an issue regarding this, he pretty much changed my original issue comment and closes all the issues (http://i.imgur.com/mGX0Fyb.png). Also, he blocked me from the repo now (http://i.imgur.com/QIpPMjB.png).

Clearly, this person want doesn't care about integrity and giving credit where it's due. I know this is open source and all, but I still believe I deserve credit for the work I put in. What can I do about this?

Also, what did GitHub think when they allowed owners of repos to edit everyone's comment? Did they not think this would be abused?

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