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by mikequinlan 944 days ago
A risk is that this other person will claim to be the original author and sue or otherwise attack you for copying their work. I am not a lawyer, but in your case I would contact one and make sure that I had enough documentation of my authorship to survive a legal claim.

(My experience is in the United States only; things might be different in other countries).

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Won't the github timestamps show which came first?
Something curious is that the oldest tag I can find on Github from Elegant is from March 16 [1], while the oldest tag I can find from Outstatic is from March 26 [2]

[1] https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli/tree/v1.0-al...

[2] https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/tags?after=v0.0.37

commits can be overwritten, what is actually reliable here is GitHub's "event stream"