Someone is claiming your work as their own.

[henzosabiq]

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]

Can we report this to GitHub?

[henzosabiq]

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.

[nickgerace]

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]

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.

[skewb1k]

this @trinhminhtriet is a real thief - all of his pinned repositories (and maybe others too) are copied from MIT-licensed projects without any mention. In every case, the entire source code appears in the first commit, followed only by dependabot bumps. And in some of them he even didn't manage to properly grep-replace original name and it still appears in README. Weird.

And sadly, there is some users and even contributors. Even I first found his "copy" - only my suspicion led me to the original (which is really great, btw!). I think he should be banned completely, and I'm ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Did you report about your project to GitHub? Did they reply with anything? I'd be happy to help gather evidence and assist, if needed.

[nickgerace]

Hi @skewb1k thank you for looking into this too. You are correct in the level of severity here. Why use an open source code hosting platform if they cannot protect open source?

I filed a takedown notice back in November 2024. Yes, it's been that long. I have not heard from them and have repeatably tried to follow up. I'm beyond disappointed in the lack of response given that I went through their recommended channels.

I'll probably look into this again and maybe reach into my social network. No one should have to do that though.

[skewb1k]

Oh, it's a shame that GitHub hasn't resolved this after such a long time. I'll try reaching out to the other authors whose copyrights were violated - maybe that will help draw more attention. Good luck to us in this matter. Hopefully, justice will be done.

[nickgerace]

@skewb1k I agree. Yes please let me/us know through this issue if you do. Thank you.