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lenny3 • today at 3:10 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

I just find it surprising that the author is complaining about "stolen code" while having been piggybacking (and earning money) from unattributed OSS code for years... https://github.com/photopea/photopea/issues/9042


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maxhille • today at 6:38 AM

I have no affiliation with anyone in this drama. I heard of Photopea before but never used it. I just opened it to check for attributions and did not find any at all. So if the - possibly fueled by lower motives - accusations about OSS license violations are indeed true, IMO Photopea lost any right to complain about people copying their product.

ProjectBarks • today at 4:18 AM

Half of these are extremely permissive license attribution issues. Seems rather tame, no?

> 4.4. Paper.js (ext1790438722.js)

> Upstream Project: Paper.js (by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey)

> License: MIT License

> Specific Violations: MIT Condition: The MIT License mandates: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." The entire ~200 KB Paper.js library is embedded in minified form with all author names, copyright notices, and license text stripped.

I question the seriousness of the author of "Photosuite". Who goes through the trouble of creating accounts to prove poorly, that they "didn't steal code".

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lukan • today at 3:51 AM

Since that audit is just some hours old and clearly completely AI written - may I ask if you have looked into it yourself to make such claims?

Or rather created it and eolix is your other alias?

gbin • today at 4:15 AM

From 5h ago, and suddenly you found that immediately, this is very juvenile.

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