How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

• upm

  2 46 0.0 Go

  🌀 Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp. (by raxod502)

the kid goes by the name of radon. in his article he links to his github repo at https://github.com/raxod502/upm bragging about it being his project. you take even four seconds and it's very clearly a fork of replit's codebase.

• crosis

  1 109 6.7 TypeScript

  A JavaScript client that speaks Replit's container protocol

  

I did not have time to check all Replit's repos but this one for example: https://github.com/replit/crosis/blob/master/LICENSE uses MIT license, so anyone is free to fork and modify it the way they want. There are also some GNU license as well (https://github.com/replit/prybar/blob/master/COPYING) which also allows forking, with certain limitations but nothing warrants a "disclosure" or copying problem.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• prybar

  2 247 4.3 Go

  Pry open those interpreters.

  

I did not have time to check all Replit's repos but this one for example: https://github.com/replit/crosis/blob/master/LICENSE uses MIT license, so anyone is free to fork and modify it the way they want. There are also some GNU license as well (https://github.com/replit/prybar/blob/master/COPYING) which also allows forking, with certain limitations but nothing warrants a "disclosure" or copying problem.

• riju

  21 1,511 5.6 JavaScript

  ⚡ Extremely fast online playground for every programming language.

  

The project in question that allows running code in the browser is https://github.com/raxod502/riju, an entirely unrelated repo.

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