[yboris]

I had someone steal my MIT open source software (that I sell for $5) and they are selling it for $11 or more. My software is 8+ years old; they are lying to the customers that they have been developing theirs for years. Very frustrating.

mine: https://videohubapp.com/

my GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

grifter: https://videocliplibrary.com/

[tasuki]

Also you didn't mention you send $3.5 of the $5 to charity! Their Discord has three members, so perhaps it's not very popular? The "creator" lists themselves as "Peoples Grocers" and their website is a weird not-even-half-assed copy of Simon Willison's Weblog: https://peoplesgrocers.com/

[nickvec]

Yikes. jfyi @simonw

[simantel]

How can someone steal MIT-licensed software? The license says:

Permission is hereby granted [...] to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software [...]

If you don't want other people to be able to sell it, don't use an MIT license.

[flexagoon]

The license also says:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

If the copyright attribution for the original code is missing, that violates the license. MIT is not a "no rights reserved" license like 0BSD or Unlicense.

[alsetmusic]

Looks like something I can definitely use. I just bought your app. Hope the thief's computer crashes and they don't have backups.