Did PieFed 'steal code' from Pylova? Let's look at what happened - PieFed
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This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out. A few months ago, someone made a new fork of PieFed, which they called ‘Pylova‘. […]

This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.

  • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zipEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I assume PyLova’s dev were unsatisfied with PieFed that they forked it. Whether the dissatisfaction was with the code or the dev team I don’t know. It may have contributed to their apparently emotional “we are happy to take from you but not happy to let you take from us” response.

    That said, sounds like Rimu did not verify with PyLova devs whether the third party conveyed their thoughts accurately. I don’t blame him; it is a task that takes both emotional and physical efforts. Just perhaps it could have been resolved in a more beneficial way to both parties, e.g. they might have been satisfied if attribution are added to the files themselves.

    • Andy_R@feddit.ukEnglish
      111·
      12 days ago

      Rimu kicked and banned the pylove dev, refusing to speak to them or let them speak.

      Rimu was also upset his attempt at taking the code without contribution failed at first.