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Discussion on: Someone copied my code on Github and claimed it to be his own project.

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Randall

I really enjoyed Vincent's answer and learned from it.

But my perspective is that it's really not worth worrying about, unless you intend to make money from it, and are willing to litigate. If not, just take it in stride and forget about it. If anything, consider it a compliment.

I put all my open source code under the MIT license. Some of it is fairly significant and I've seen parts of it copied without respecting the license. But it doesn't really bother me honestly. If people are finding it useful and building things with it, I'm happy.