Open-source templates repo accused of scraping 200 paid templates and relicensing as MIT; DMCA filed
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-11-12
An open-source plagiarism dispute is escalating. Developer Mike Andreuzza accuses puulkit of claiming he "spent thousands of dollars building" a repo of 50+ templates "generated with Claude Fable 5", when in fact 200 of them are paid templates from 10 vendors (45 of them Mike's own), scraped from live demos and relicensed as MIT under his own name — while promoting it in a Microsoft Reactor talk. A DMCA has been filed.
puulkit responds that the project was an open-source experiment, the repo remains public, and asks critics to point to exactly what was copied, noting he removed Lexington's templates and forks may hold evidence. He also objects to his employer being dragged into a personal project, and says the fallout included racist comments about Indians — including, he claims, from Mike himself.
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