This guys is selling your plugin for 40$ in China

[Evil0ctal]

This guys is selling your plugin for 40$ in China

https://afdian.net/item/45de5402bb2f11ee92335254001e7c00

https://ricedoc.handyplus.cn/wiki/CompanionsPlus

[Evil0ctal]

@Aster0 I just saw you add License file 3 weeks ago，is that allowed to modify your code and resell？

[Aster0]

No, it doesn’t allow reselling. Thanks for alerting me to this.

[Evil0ctal]

No, it doesn’t allow reselling. Thanks for alerting me to this.

That's what I thought too, do you want me to give you that guy GitHub link so you can contact him?

[Aster0]

https://github.com/handy-git

This is him, right?

[Evil0ctal]

https://github.com/handy-git

This is him, right?

Yes, and I believe he had been doing that for very long time without let you know first, and I saw the guy modify your plugin and add few GUI and make 8X more than your price I feel bad for it, so I opened this issue to try make sure that you got noticed.

[iXanadu13]

@Aster0 @Evil0ctal
He not only plagiarized your code, but also claimed that it was something he spent 9 months writing. Here are some proofs about it.
Comparison of code plagiarism.zip
His misconducts are not limited to this; he also resold free models downloaded from foreign countries.
resold proof.zip
https://companions.polymart.org/resource/megalodon.1151
And when he was called out for reselling the models, all he said was, "Hey, you found all of this" ,without any apology or shame.

I am also a Chinese, and I feel ashamed of what this guy did.

[iXanadu13]

He also repeatedly emphasized that he spent 9 months writing it, and how hard it was for him to develop the plugin. He could say these things with a clear conscience, which shows that copying code has become commonplace for him.

[Evil0ctal]

He has no open source spirit, and anything violation of the license would be count as stealing and it's shame for him.

[Aster0]

To everyone:

I really appreciate the help you all have gone through looking out for the plugin. I have spoken to Handy, and he has rejected all claims - saying that it’s his plugin and it’s different from mine. However, I quote from him: “ In order to be compatible with historical data, some of my functions are inevitably the same as before.” which seems to me that he’s using my algorithm for some. He also showed me screenshots of CompanionsPlus which had a few renamed class file but majority looks like the same as Companions.

I don’t think he has any intentions of bringing the $40 resource down; however, he had made a pull request with some changes (that somehow I can’t see, so I can’t approve) - he has also claimed that my code was messy, and yeah, Companions has quite legacy code because it was done years ago and has only received a few refactors since.

[Evil0ctal]

Very funny that how he responded, this guy is a shame of Chinese Minecraft community and open source community, he used to be a Moderator for MCBBS.net community and use his power and rights to selling these not authorized content on Chinese market, and I believe there are many people had been paid for his "own work", but due MCBBS.net is dead from Jan 2024, I believe he lost his biggest income source, however please keep this issue open so more people can figure out what happened here.

And again thanks for your works and open source this project, if I have time, I will make a video on bilibili.com to tell more Chinese players about this.

[wuminawa]

Please stop your performance. If you can still deny it after comparing the code screenshots above, then you are quite foolish. Don't think that you can deceive everyone by making slight modifications to the original. The Internet has a memory. Do you need me to upload your initial version to corroborate the code comparison above?

[Evil0ctal]

Store/Warehouse/Upgrade GUI is completely redesigned

Now we know that they had been RE-Designed

[Evil0ctal]

Store/Warehouse/Upgrade GUI is completely redesigned

Now we know that they had been RE-Designed

If I been start a new project from 0 to 1, I will never describe my work as completely redesigned, and this is the issue related to original copyright and related to how many Add-on work had been created in the original work, so let just make it simple, you did use this repo's owner code, and you do whatever work after that and you didn't let the original author know that, and you start selling the resources(there is some part included the original author work like you said as redesign) for 8 times price compared than original resource, this is not very good.

[Evil0ctal]

And I believe if you actually did use the original author content, and it's for profit usage, you should at least give some of profits that you made from it to the original author, that would be end this up and be a happy ending.

[Aster0]

Trying to talk to him but he insists that it’s non forked and even made an issue on my Github repository advertising his plugin 🤔

[ZiMoeBaBa]

He must be mad.Seriously mad.
I have no word.
xd

[iXanadu13]

I can help you translate it. He said, "It's a shame not to advertise."

[Aster0]

I'm tired of explaining. I don't mean to repeat myself.

If you need the jar, I can provide it to you and you can check it yourself to see if it's forked or not, instead of mindlessly listening to submissions from the Cracked Alliance

You as an author do not take responsibility for the purchaser, do not maintain the code causing my server not to be upgraded, and do not accept code submissions

I need to make an upgrade of the server possible for everyone who has purchased it`

This was his reply to me. I’d like to attach my reply:
There’s nothing stopping you from modifying the code and using it for your own server. However, there is something wrong if you modify the code, and then start selling it without credits.

You keep saying it’s a non forked version but you keep using words like “upgrade”, “some functions are inevitably the same”, etc.

I sincerely do apologize and do regret with a heavy heart that Companions was abandoned. That is why, I chose to open source it so people could use it for free if needed. Companions was a project that I put a lot of effort in, and I still regret every single day that I chose to abandon it. I was and am still in a difficult time in life, and Companions’ legacy codes was demotivating me to continue and again I apologize if any servers lacked updates due to me.

I might make a totally refactored Companions version in the future.

[Evil0ctal]

I can't believe that he is trying to advertise, he just feel proud of his theft behavior lol 😂

[Aster0]

And I’d like to add that I have spent many years forcing myself to update Companions which had demotivated me further. I can’t say how sorry I am but I apologize once again to everyone affected. I have tried my best and maintained support for many years. I will look into coming back into maintaining Companions again perhaps.

[Evil0ctal]

If I reverses engineering Microsoft Windows system and take out Win source code then I made a few changes in the code(rename files change function names...) and I make a brand new UI for my own system, can I legally sell the system that I make with 8 times price compared windows?

No! Why? Because it's copyright violation, so very obviously in this world lot people can do it but they choose not to.

[Aster0]

I am also very happy to see that there’re people still supporting this plugin and it makes me very happy honestly. Making development projects have been my passion and the only reason why Companions was a paid plugin was because I was testing out premium plugins on Spigot. Other than that, it gives me great pleasure to see when my development projects are being used for everyone and I usually do it for free.

[Aster0]

Give me some time to think about rebuilding Companions from the ground up. If I do - it’ll be free for all previous buyers and might not even end up as a premium plugin this time. It’s honestly just my passion to share my work with others and monetary gain isn’t on my mind.

EDIT: I have attached an announcement on my Discord server, thanks for motivating me to get back and do so. May I know what are your Discord tags?

[Aster0]

Can you guys send some snippets of screenshot of the plagiarism? Am at work and on mobile, so this would be convenient for me.

[Aster0]

Can you guys send some snippets of screenshot of the plagiarism? Am at work and on mobile, so this would be convenient for me.

#7 (comment)

Thanks for this. Unfortunately, it’s difficult for me to check that because I’m on mobile 😅

[Evil0ctal]

He didn't even change the GIF picture on his wiki page

[Aster0]

He didn't even change the GIF picture on his wiki page

Thank you. Appreciate this. Do you have snippets of the old .jar version with plagiarisms as well?

[wuminawa]

The initial version of the plagiarist's plugin: CompanionsPlus-1.0.0-archive.zip

[ZiMoeBaBa]

[Aster0]

😂 thank you. Honestly, surprised that Companions has such a huge demand that people would copy it..

[ZiMoeBaBa]

This is only part of it.You'd better see the rest by yourself by opening the zip file.

[wuminawa]

checkDrop:

companionFollow-1:

companionFollow-2:

despawnCompanion:

executeCommand:

giveDodge:

giveFireBall:

giveLightning:

giveMiningVision:

giveVectorJump:

loadCompanion:

setArmorPose:

setCustomName&setCustomNameVisible:

setCustomWeapon&updateCompanion:

[ZiMoeBaBa]

Perfect Answer
xd

[IllTamer]

I'm saying again that this is not a fork version.

Full version compatibility from 1.8-1.20.4 including sub-versions, Companions plugin only supports some sub-versions and does not support versions from 1.20 onward. Store/Warehouse/Upgrade GUI is completely redesigned. Use MYSQL and SQLITE instead of yml for data storage. add attribute_plus or sx_attribute or AttributeSystem or MythicLib for pets. Add support for attribute_plus or sx_attribute or AttributeSystem or MythicLib for pet equipment system. attribute support variable parsing and operators, support +-*/ support numeric type variables. all configurations, all content support RGB colors support for coupon plug-ins independent configuration files, support for each pet a configuration file the author actively listen to the comments at any time to update the new features and fix the problem Support Folia core Each pet level can be customized the plugin name is just because the inspiration from the Companions, and support for the conversion of Companions data so called a CompanionsPlus just If you feel the same, you can go to build Companions to try to do the above functions, thanks!

"A clown who plagiarized plugin and hallucinated that he was the original author." 🤡🤡🤡

[wuminawa]

tell a joke: "I really like this project"
#1

[liannai569]

tell a joke: "I really like this project" #1

I really like money! Give me money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (only 40$)

[Aster0]

🤔

[Evil0ctal]

Can never wake up someone who is pretending to sleep

[jhqwqmc]

This guy is shameless, just take a look at his so-called code screenshot, it's really laughable.

[PixelEast]

He just disbanded his plugin after-sales chat group

[jhqwqmc]

解散+禁言，米饭大佬真厉害，一套丝滑的小连招

[Evil0ctal]

🤡🤡🤡

[wuminawa]

[Evil0ctal]

Let me translate this picture, so Handy Git(AKA 米饭) is also selling the cracked version plugins not made by him, and when someone else cracked his plugins that he said his wants the person die and this is his dead money 🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣

[sumdream]

🤡🤡🤡