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Someone is claiming your work as their own. #264

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henzosabiq opened this issue Nov 24, 2024 · 4 comments
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Someone is claiming your work as their own. #264

henzosabiq opened this issue Nov 24, 2024 · 4 comments

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@henzosabiq
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henzosabiq commented Nov 24, 2024

Hi. I thought you might want to know about this.

This person https://github.com/trinhminhtriet copied your entire repository almost entirely verbatim, except he changed references (project names, links, etc) of the original to theirs and removed attributions.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/trinhminhtriet/gitmgr

They made a thread on r/rust before to promote his other stolen project (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gyngfl/introducing_rmrfrs_a_powerful_filesystem_cleaning/). The project was under his profile (https://github.com/trinhminhtriet/rmrfrs). When some users pointed out the plagiarism, he did not bother addressing anything, deleted the thread, closed issues made by other users in his stolen repo, and made a proxy org 'rust-rs' to try to obscure the footstep. One user pointed out that his other repo (yours) was also stolen.

Archived links in case they delete their account:
http://web.archive.org/web/20241124164634/https://github.com/trinhminhtriet
https://web.archive.org/web/20241124165127/https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1gyngfl/introducing_rmrfrs_a_powerful_filesystem_cleaning/
https://web.archive.org/web/20241124172705/https://github.com/trinhminhtriet/gitmgr

Edit: fixed wrong project links

@SoutrikBandyopadhyay
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Can we report this to GitHub?

@henzosabiq
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Can we report this to GitHub?

I tried to report it under Copyright Infringement earlier, but only the repo owner can do that. They need to submit a DMCA takedown notice themselves.

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nickgerace commented Nov 26, 2024

Thank you both very much. @henzosabiq this was very kind of you and great to do. All the evidence must have taken awhile to compile and I sincerely appreciate it. I'll look into how to report it.

@henzosabiq
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Thank you both very much. @henzosabiq this was very kind of you and great to do. All the evidence must have taken awhile to compile and I sincerely appreciate it. I'll look into how to report it.

No problem, I'm glad this could help. I hope this gets resolved quickly.

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