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A few weeks ago, I saw a fork on github with only one single change, which was a name change.
Now, I see a repository of the forking user, containing a "modern distro chooser", using slightly modified questions of mine.
Also, the general calculation concept seems to be identical to mine.
All of this is frustrating, but a disadvantage of OSS. The software is MIT/ MPL-2.0, which allowes this.
If all license agreements are fullfiled? I don't know. He seems not to use my codes anymore, but he obviously using the repository as a copy template.
I don't know if he needs to link the "original" repository or not.
The bigger problem ist that he uses parts of database based content, which is not Open Source.
In general, this is more a problem of using other's intellectual property instead of license abuse.
All of this causing me to think about turning distrochooser.de non-oss. The repository should create collaboration, not a copy template.
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