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I'm the author, and I'm entirely guilty of that misunderstanding. This is not what I meant, it's just a commented targeted at a number of different people who h

I'm the author, and I'm entirely guilty of that misunderstanding. This is not what I meant, it's just a commented targeted at a number of different people who have stolen my stuff in recent years, in different areas of my work, and not only about Pijul, genuinely claiming to rediscover it after they had read the code, read the papers, asked me questions about it. That comment of mine doesn't belong in that post, I removed it.

chriswarbo 6y ago
It sounds like this is a (very common) mix up of copyright and plagiarism. Whenever I've talked about Creative Commons with artists, their most frequent concern is about others passing off work as their own. It's a widespread conflation, but thankfully it's easy to sort out; for example, The Canterbury Tales was written before copyright existed, but that doesn't mean I can claim it as my own work; that would be fraud (specifically: plagiarism).
BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying this, I think it's much better if this paragraph doesn't distract people from the great work you are doing on Pijul. And being plagiarized totally sucks, as someone who has found his own GPL'ed code in non-open commercial products, I think I can relate, even though this is of course not quite the same. I hope you can find other ways to deal with that, though.
mythz 6y ago
FYI the Documentation link [1] in the header menu of your home page is returning a 404. [1] https://pijul.org/manual https://pijul.org/manual
- hobofan 6y ago
  This is intended as the docs for the new Pijul still have to be written and keeping up the old ones would have likely lead to confusion.
CyberRabbi 6y ago
The gpl doesnt protect ideas, it only protects code. I agree that there is rampant theft going on in open source. You should keep your work closed source and figure out a way to prevent others from stealing your work from you before making it open source

chriswarbo 6y ago

It sounds like this is a (very common) mix up of copyright and plagiarism. Whenever I've talked about Creative Commons with artists, their most frequent concern is about others passing off work as their own. It's a widespread conflation, but thankfully it's easy to sort out; for example, The Canterbury Tales was written before copyright existed, but that doesn't mean I can claim it as my own work; that would be fraud (specifically: plagiarism).

BlackFingolfin 6y ago

Thank you for clarifying this, I think it's much better if this paragraph doesn't distract people from the great work you are doing on Pijul. And being plagiarized totally sucks, as someone who has found his own GPL'ed code in non-open commercial products, I think I can relate, even though this is of course not quite the same. I hope you can find other ways to deal with that, though.

mythz 6y ago

FYI the Documentation link [1] in the header menu of your home page is returning a 404. [1] https://pijul.org/manual https://pijul.org/manual

hobofan 6y ago
This is intended as the docs for the new Pijul still have to be written and keeping up the old ones would have likely lead to confusion.

CyberRabbi 6y ago

The gpl doesnt protect ideas, it only protects code. I agree that there is rampant theft going on in open source. You should keep your work closed source and figure out a way to prevent others from stealing your work from you before making it open source