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Ask HN: How to be credited as the publisher of my own software?
So, I made this game, Wizznic! some years back. Open source and all, and while it's not great, I still take some pride in it.
Someone else made an unofficial port for Android, I've got no beef with them. (Yes, Wizznic! is a re-implementation of Puzznic, but an improved one and definitely a clean-room implementation)
Google, however, will display them as the publisher of that game, even though they're only publishing an unofficial port for an unsupported platform.
This rubs me the wrong way, even the google search results clearly shows that they're not the official publisher.
Lots of documentation has been provided, source-code repositories, blog posts.. I even emailed them photo id of myself to prove that I exist, but I could not claim the panel, since I am a person, and not a company, and apparently, persons cannot publish software.
What to do now?
Can I start a campaign somehow?
If I could, I'd like to start it here, as I urge you to search on google for Wizznic! and leave feedback where you mark "Mikrosoft Android" as factually wrong..
- gus_massa 6y agoWhat is the license of your project? Many licences don't require the original programmer to be credited, or they require only to keep the name in the source code.
- dusted 6y agoThe license is GPLv3, I'm not really thinking about crediting, for example in a port. I'm talking about who the publisher of the program is, and how silly it is that google can get away with ignoring stuff like this, I wonder how many panels are wrong.