Quote from: doremi on January 14, 2015, 06:30:14 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on January 14, 2015, 04:43:35 PM

Quote from: doremi on January 14, 2015, 03:41:49 PM

Quote from: gmaxwell on January 12, 2015, 03:09:41 PM

FWIW, I politely reported the copyright violation (the code being a copy of Bitcoin Core run through an auto-formatter with all the attribution removed) as an issue on the github for the project and john-connor accused me of stalking him and then hid the issue tracker on that github from public view. :-/

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as it's consistent with the rest of the concerns that resulted in creating this thread-- that there is some ongoing effort to keep that work out of the sunlight.

copyright violation? enlighthen me please since Bitcoin Core is an open source as far as i know

Bitcoin Core is copyrighted open source, as most open source software is.
If you violate the license terms, you can never copy it again, unless the copyright holders give you a new license.

who is the copyright holder then?Sathoshi Nagamoto?

Each individual contributor holds copyright to his contribution.
That means any of us can DMCA or sue for copyright infringement, and that someone who has infringed on the license needs to get permission from each and every one of us, before they can distribute/copy Bitcoin Core ever again (even unmodified).
(and yes, you're right that they will have a difficult time getting permission from Satoshi...)