Did PieFed 'steal code' from Pylova? Let's look at what happened - PieFed
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This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out. A few months ago, someone made a new fork of PieFed, which they called ‘Pylova‘. […]

This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.

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    10 hours ago

    Thank you very much for the additional insightful clarifications!
    May I ask how would proper attribution look like in this case?

    Let’s assume the license is the same and someone else changed :/pyfedi.py, who should and where would it be correct to append the new contributor name to the current license header?:

    # This file is part of PieFed, which is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3.0.
# You should have received a copy of the GPL along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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