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by thiht 677 days ago
There’s big sections of code I wrote in the original open source lib. I didn’t copy paste the code but the implementation in this component is obviously pretty close. I’m the copyright holder of this code anyway so it should not be an issue, but I’d rather not take the risk.

Plagiarism is not always clear cut because life is messy. That’s why Wine doesn’t allow contributions from people who have seen Windows source code[1] for instance, even though it could be good faith contributions with experience instead of plagiarism

[1]: https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#Who_can't_contribute_t...?