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by surelyyoujest 2561 days ago
You've built an entire online presence by copying everything from other people's work - from your blog theme to your content "without knowing"?

Adorable.

Also, by briefly reading the docs on the "platform" you are trying to peddle, I'm getting fairly certain you also copied that as well, as it is too well written in comparison to the drivel on your blog.

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In all fairness on that last point, if you're referring to his "Gitote" project, the author has stated here [0] that it was a fork of Gogs, and seems to have retained the proper copyright notices in the source files:

"// Copyright 2015 - Present, The Gogs Authors. All rights reserved. // Copyright 2018 - Present, Gitote. All rights reserved." [1]

I agree it should probably have been given more prominent mention, but given the number of commits doesn't seem (at quick glance) to be a hasty "fork and rename".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137624 [1] https://gitlab.com/gitote/gitote/blob/master/gitote.go

It was accepted by the founder itself https://twitter.com/jc_unknwon/status/1066713466524848128
Please don't gang up on someone like this on HN. It's fine to challenge incorrect information, but not to aggressively humiliate them.

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