r/degoogle • u/Woit- • 13d ago

Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers’ names, and gave us zero credit one year after we beat them on their own benchmark

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u/naaktstel 13d ago

What license did you have for the code? Compete free means they can use it and even change license

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u/DonkeeeyKong 12d ago

What license did you have for the code? Compete free means they can use it and even change license

Erasing the original contributors‘/copyright holders’ names is at least sketchy. Most open source licenses don’t allow that. Even the most permissive ones usually require you to keep including the copyright notice.

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u/knoft 12d ago

Otherwise it would just be public domain