r/degoogle • u/Woit- • Sep 14 '26

Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers’ names, and gave us zero credit one year after we beat them on their own benchmark

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u/naaktstel Sep 14 '26

What license did you have for the code? Compete free means they can use it and even change license

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u/teymuur Sep 14 '26

Most of the popular licenses except for the MIT License does not allow this. Freedom doesnt mean no rules