Code stolen from Monero without credit about sumokoin HOT 7 CLOSED

Another DMCA incoming, copycats.

Update:

Legally there's nothing that can be done about this I think. The same happened to me on another project at Nextcloud where ownCloud (which Nextcloud is forked from) copied a patch without giving credit. The problem was that the guy who submitted the patch was not working for ownCloud, so legally it wasn't their fault. For sure the guy was working for ownCloud and just using a throwaway account to submit the patch & remove copyright notices.

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IANAL, and I don't have any knowledge of the OSS license that Monero falls under, but in general I would never expect fine-grained acks like this. From my perspective, I contributed to the Monero project, and expect it to fall under that entire licensing umbrella. For the record, no attribution to me is necessary, though I completely support anyone, including the Monero project, that seeks credit where appropriate.

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Thanks @noahdesu for your stand and sorry for all mistakes about copyright. Sumokoin, itself, has already had some forks and, I guess, will have many more. While copyright and credits are always issues, we hope we'll never have to use it as an ultimate measure to take down any clone or competitor

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While it was Bill's mistake not give the code author credits, all related files had been retained copyright to The Monero Project:

https://github.com/sumoprojects/sumokoin/blob/master/src/daemon/daemon.cpp
https://github.com/sumoprojects/sumokoin/blob/master/src/daemon/daemon.h
https://github.com/sumoprojects/sumokoin/blob/master/src/daemonizer/posix_daemonizer.inl

The docker file, however, has no copyright notice but we don't mind to add it for The Monero Project if required.

The whole project is basically a fork and codes from upstream are everywhere. We've tried to retain all copyrights to The Monero Project to all files we have no actual contributions at the commit:

70d76e7

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I believe it's critically important to make a clear distinction between genuinely original new code and simple merge of upstream patches; currently Sumokoin, unwittingly or otherwise, is making itself appear to be innovating something technical while it's not in reality.

My suggestion for this kind of situation is to simply refer to the original PR, just like @haruto-tanno did in the subaddresses patch #28. Continuously failing to do so is nothing but plagiarism.

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Edit: I misunderstood your idea a bit. Yes. I agree

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Could someone tell me whether this also a correct solution:

Since the code was contributed to the Monero project initially; the sumokoin files to which the code was added should be updated and their Monero copyright line should be updated to contain 2018.

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