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Discussion on: Someone copied my code on Github and claimed it to be his own project.

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William Henderson

This is not quite right - the GitHub terms state that by publicly making your code available on the service anyone has the right to fork your code, but if it does not have a licence, they cannot do anything with the forked code and it must remain linked to the source repo

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Vincent A. Cicirello

Thanks. I just edited my comment to remove the line about forking.