Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers' names, and gave us zero credit
Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit
A founder claims Google's new open-source mobile automation tool, Artemis, contains 228 of 229 files identical to his company's mobile-use project, which once topped Google DeepMind's AndroidWorld benchmark. He says a commit replaced his engineers' and co-founder's names with another author's, and the README's benchmark chart omitted their top result. Google later added attribution after being called out.
Out of the 229 files, 228 were identical. Even crazier: I found our engineers' and my co-founder's names in the 'authors' section of an old commit. Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, Nicolas Dehandschoewercker. All three names had been replaced with another author's name in a commit.
- FabCH
Surprisingly many people in the linked Reddit thread seem to think that open source license means Google can re-license the code and strip the author info.
Which is the one thing you absolutely cannot do.
- gnabgib
Discussion (147 points, 4 days ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668181
- hungryhobbit
Sounds like they need a good copyright lawyer.
It seems like an open and shut case, and I hear this Google company might have a few $$$ to pay for a settlement ...