Devs accuse Google of copying their open-source code and stripping author credits
jacquesm · hn · 2026-09-16
Developers on r/reinforcementlearning allege Google copied their open-source code and removed the engineers' names without credit, sparking a heated Hacker News discussion about big tech's treatment of open-source contributors.
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