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

78 pointsby jacquesmtoday at 5:57 PM7 commentsview on HN

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FabCHtoday at 7:27 PM

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.

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gnabgibtoday at 7:43 PM

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

hungryhobbittoday at 7:42 PM

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_metoday at 7:53 PM

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.

MarleTangibletoday at 7:25 PM

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