Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

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  • colors.js

    get colors in your node.js console

    • The programmer in question used the MIT Licence for colors.js, one of the projects in question; which is essentially a permissive, non-copyleft declaration of "do what thou wilt so long as you give me credit and don't hold me liable for anything".

  • Faker.js

    Discontinued What really happened with Aaron Swartz?

    • I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2

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