Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

The Register: Honey co-founder’s Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL’d uBlock Origin files

The Register: Honey co-founder’s Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL’d uBlock Origin files . “Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter’s software license – the GNU GPL version 3. Since that claim was made and The Register inquired about the matter, Pie Adblock’s maker published materials in the past few hours that are at the heart of the exte…

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files - Techregister

Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter’s software license – the GNU GPL version 3. Since that claim was made and The Register inquired about the matter, Pie Adblock’s maker published materials in the past few hours that are at the heart of the extension and clearly come from uBlock Origin as well as Adguard, another competitor. That publicatio…

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter's software license – the GNU GPL version 3. . . .