Quote from: altmarket3 on April 21, 2020, 09:33:47 AM

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Can I ask what file you're looking at? I see in the Tao2 repository the COPYING file hasn't been updated.

Sure. That file still refers to the original source (ethereum, of which Tomo is a fork).

The file I'm referring to is the LICENSE file in the docs repository, which was changed to refer to Tao rather than Tomochain in this commit: https://github.com/taoblockchain/docs/commit/c56c2abe487301f9a461d1749cb1ba3c422afe35#diff-9879d6db96fd29134fc802214163b95a

Which is explicitly not allowed by the MIT license (basically it's the only thing not allowed).

It's also funny that Bryce is claiming copyright of the whole documentation repo going back all the way to 2018.

And it doesn't really matter if it's a "work in progress" or not. Distributing that stuff without including the copyright notice is copyright infringement, plain and simple.

And on the whole doing a search-and-replace without checking at the very least that you're not breaking copyright with it is pretty much the absolute lowest bar you should clear.

Thanks. Just to illustrate what you're saying, here is the change being made by Bryce:

Here is what it says under these words:

It specifically says "the above copyright notice... shall be included in all copies" yet he changed it from TomoChain to Tao... He didn't even think to change the year! Cheesy

Definitely a violation of the copyright notice, and again, demonstrates a sheer lack of morals, respect for the copyright, and originality. He can't be bothered to come up with a single original idea of his own.

It will be interesting to see if he bothers changing it. My guess will be "no" because he thinks he's sticking it to us by knowingly engaging in copyright infringement.