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Developer Alleges Ente Locker Copied FairScan Code Without Attribution

Original: Same hard-coded values (5°, 7°, 25°), same variable and function names, same steps, in the same order. On one side, Fair

A developer is publicly accusing the Ente Locker project of copying code from FairScan, a GPLv3-licensed Android scanning app written in Kotlin. The accusation rests on identical hard-coded angle values (5°, 7°, 25°), matching variable and function names, and the same operations in the same order, found in a Rust file carrying no copyright notice and no mention of FairScan. The developer says more examples exist beyond the one function shown, raising questions about GPL compliance.

Why now: Accusations of unattributed GPL code copying between open-source projects draw attention because they raise licensing and ethics concerns.

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Evidence

• Same hard-coded values (5°, 7°, 25°), same variable and function names, same steps, in the same order. On one side, FairScan (Kotlin, GPL v3). On the other, Ente Locker (Rust): no copyright notice, no mention of FairScan in the file. And this is just one function. I found… · pynicolas · 3

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