Copyright issues

[nalexn]

Hey @izyumkin and @htmlprogrammist

Just wanted to point out that one of you may need to reference the other project, as yours MCEmojiPicker and EmojiPicker seem to be almost identical (the readmes are 99% identical word-by-word).

[rxkesh]

Lol that is quite the copy paste, good eye!

[izyumkin]

Hey! Yes, it's very funny! Finally someone noticed it. You can look in the commit history EmojiPicker who and when really made this library.

In addition, I wrote an article in several languages about how I developed this library, and this person copied it and also participated in competitions with it...

If you know what I can do with this, I would be very happy!

[htmlprogrammist]

Hello, guys,

In this whole story, @izyumkin misses the fact that he had the opportunity to develop together, no one "just copied" this project, a pull request was opened so that all developers could develop an open source library and an MIT license together – #7

He could also tell me that he would not like to output this project as a package, then we would just close the pull request, delete everything and that's it. But instead he decided to copy everything from my work without any modification. Let’s look through the readme, for example, as @nalexn pointed out:

Mine updates and others: htmlprogrammist/EmojiPicker@7592f8a#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5

https://github.com/htmlprogrammist/EmojiPicker/commits/main/README.md

His updates
ad839cb

e121925

ea01387 (check commit comments here. And date. Immediately after my comment, he closed the pull request)
But from the history of his repository I can’t get this commit (maybe, you too?). The only commit is e47e3c0

Flags in localization (check dates)
6725395
https://github.com/htmlprogrammist/EmojiPicker/tree/de2d4d7288baaa51f41cce1cda1f4890329b4726

The author of the written code was admitted since the first commit of working on this project htmlprogrammist/EmojiPicker@80990c2#diff-94c67287601e99038cfdf11ed6bea8cb2edacea630b249a3b42e44bc0fadd67b and then I opened pull request

[nalexn]

@htmlprogrammist you absolutely have the right to fork a project and continue the development independently - open source community works this way. Just as @izyumkin has the right to not accept PRs. MIT licence just requires the project that appeared second to keep the copyright notice in the existing files of the project and leave a link to the original. Just mention it was inspired by that library, but now is developed independently

[htmlprogrammist]

Thanks for your reply.

My claim was only whether @izyumkin had the right to copy everything that was written without mentioning me. Someone may find it wrong, someone may find it normal, because everything is under the MIT License, fortunately this story works both ways.

As a person with impeccable karma, I will agree to mark it as you said, because I have nothing to hide and everything is confirmed by the commit dates.

[izyumkin]

@htmlprogrammist , yes, indeed our approaches are slightly different and that's why I closed your PR. But undoubtedly you have written good documentation for my library. At that time, I didn't know how to accept only one file from the pull request, and therefore I added the changes separately myself.

If you want, you can make a new pull request with some changes in the readme file to "stay in the commit history" or suggest how I can still add your changes to the readme from a closed PR. What do you think about this?

[htmlprogrammist]

@izyumkin To do what is fair, now I see options like this: reopen PR, accept changes, resolve all conflicts in your favor. But in this case maybe (maybe not) we will have to fix something later, for example, adding some now superfluous file.

And the second option is simpler: mention me as the author of the documentation in the "About" of readme.md, for example, "Thanks to @htmlprogrammist for writing the documentation"

[izyumkin]

Will these commits be enough to get you happy?

[htmlprogrammist]

Hello,
Of course not. If you still want to go your own way (not with the options I offered you when everything will be clear), then be kind enough to cherry pick at least the following commits:

573f013
442b1e5
63b9e7c
f42a836
8ffc465
7c1eb0e
bd177aa
5cf3c71
60a96a5
7e37ea0
3dd164a
5d08553
826a716

[izyumkin]

Sorry mate, I've started adding commits, but what you're asking is unrealistic to do. I don't have the time or inclination to do it.

In this pull-request I chose a commit that changes the documentation, and it is your contribution that I want to include in my repository. People can see the rest of your work at your place, I left a link to it in the PR comments.

[htmlprogrammist]

You just threw away and disrespected everything I did. The main thing is that you took everything for yourself, but now you refuse to do anything for me. Okay, this will be on your conscience.

[izyumkin]

If you manage to include all the commits that you wrote above in one pull request, then I will gladly accept it. I just don't have time to do this, sorry.