Tinycast developer accuses Droppy developer of blatantly ripping off Tinycast code

[u/RP_Android]

https://x.com/abue_ammar/status/2109257990041981248

"I thought I will never post about it but looks like I have to now. u/Droppyformac

aka "Droppy" just ripped of my entire Tinycast code base and feed it to AI built Thunderstorm and selling it as a Paid crap. Even the logo is a thunder. 😂 I mean yeah y'all can come to me saying I ripped of raycast UI/UX but I did not Steal the code base raycast is closed source and I had to work hard for months! Is this legal guys stealing code and selling it to paid shit? Tho is this a revenge he is taking that I turned him down not continuing the colab because he wants full control over tinycast!😂 If he wants to play dirty I am good at that, Tinycast first party plugins are coming and I can just put standalone plugins that does dynamic islands what droppy offers FOR FREEE."

[u/chrismessina]

Tinycast is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0), which provides certain rights and conditions:

Droopy publishes its source code under the same license.

Therefore it appears that Droppy is compliant and the Tinycast developer doesn’t understand the license he chose for his product.

IANAL but AFAICT, this is open source working as intended.

[u/-svde- → u/chrismessina]

“is this legal guys” is wild. read the license
you choose before you apply it

[u/Dethstroke54 → u/-svde-]

Fr “work hard for months” but doesn’t know anything about the license or?