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

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traleeee profile image
Tra Le

You have to search for open source licenses.
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Sadeedpv🥇

Hey, which license would you recommend to prevent users from copying the projects and publishing them as their own?

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Dogers

It depends what your goal is - if you don't want anyone to see/use/edit your code at all, don't make it public and write your own closed source license.

If you just don't want people to claim your code as their own then a "copy-left" license is probably what you want. Jmaus post and link is probably the best - dev.to/jmau111/comment/2082h

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Raí B. Toffoletto

I'm sorry to read that @sadeedpv

I'd use GPL 3. They need to refer tonand keep they project opensource. Otherwise private way it's.... =\