[hoofhearted]

I had also been working to resolve a number of major issues within Outstatic such as licensing and GDPR concerns with the author himself privately; as to not disclose major issues on a public forum like that from out of respect.

I appreciate and understand your feelings.

What changes or updates can I make based on your feedback?

[AndreVitorio]

https://dub.sh/code-theft

[hoofhearted]

I apologize for my end of the drama. I never meant any harm or anything nefarious, and I 100% never intended to come off as stealing.

[AndreVitorio]

Hey Brandon,

I don't want to keep coming back to this.

I know you never intended to come off as stealing, thieves don't want their theft to be discovered. Unfortunately, seeing how you continued to lie after being exposed this apology feels like too little too late. If a sincere apology, admitting your wrong doing and attempt to hide any connection to Outstatic, had been written in the beginning of this whole ordeal, I'm sure this wouldn't have taken the proportions it took.

I'm not saying what you've done is unforgivable, you made a mistake, but it's important to come clean.

I hope one day you see that what you've done is wrong and that this whole situation was brought up because you tried taking credit for something you didn't create.

Don't think I've enjoyed any of this. To the contrary, I wish I never had to write about this, but I couldn't let you take credit for the work of Outstatic's contributors.

I hope that in the future you only take credit for things you create, and if you use someone's work, do give credit where it's due. This will avoid a lot of stress for you and those who's work you are benefiting from.

[hoofhearted]

What’s your goal here mate? To teach me some life lesson or something?

You are coming off as a bit controlling and narcissistic. It’s a bit creepy that you befriended me on discord just to capture screenshots to use against me on your blog, started following and cyber stalking the contributors to my project. I bit more creepy that you went behind me online and made posts “warning” the public about me.

I didn’t do anything wrong. I forked the Outstatic project, which had the Vercel copyright MIT license at the time of forking, and I went with that. There was no author or entity mention in the license, so what was I supposed to do exactly?

I didn’t steal anything, and you are kind of just making up your own rules regarding open source software and giving credit because I didn’t fit in your little perfect world of open source software.

I was not aware that I had to also run any of my videos or social media posts by you first for permission before posting.

You never actually confronted me about any sort of concerns or violations, nor have you given me any chance to make updates or modifications to suit your complaints.

You have instead been on a social media campaign spreading drama and knocking me down to push your own product up.

What kind of credit are you looking for exactly?

https://www.quora.com/If-someone-doesnt-put-my-MIT-license-i...

https://pitt.libguides.com/openlicensing/MIT#:~:text=Like%20....