You are free to do what you believe in. Can you just hear my side of the story to be completely fair.
I wanted to make an easy to use and comfortable way to send tips and messages to followers free for Stemians to use. I found a functional code on github without a word about copyright or "Please don't use it" or "Don't copy it" phrase. Just like on https://stackoverflow.com, when I search for answers or tutorials that are not copyrighted I used the code. And Github is the best place for authors to leave their code free for others to use and modify.
I did not credit the author, because I sometimes don't credit jQuery, PHP and MySql when I use their code on my other web sites. I think it is a good idea to credit all authors and I actually should do that in the future. And others should too.
Once the author wrote in the comments that he has not given me permission to use the code my first answer was and I quote "msg768, I took it from github https://github.com/msg768/mysteemit and modified UI and backend. There was no sign of copyright on Github page. I have considered it to be opensource and improved it. I will rewrite my own code completely and will not user your code at all. Thanks"
I proposed a solution that now is actually accepted by the author. But still, I saw 25+ comments from the author badmouthing me about stealing the code that was actually open to the public on Github. Plus I saw another post that was badmouthing me on authors blog. Then people starting flagging posts that are not related at all to authors tipper code. So why flag me if I did not do anything illegal and then flagging me and badmouthing me even though I proposed a fair solution to the author's first request. Do you thing it is fair at all?
It is like leaving a candy in the reception hall and sewing everyone who takes them? Don't you think so?
After that I removed the code from the website. Already over 18 hours now the site is not functional.
I believe that everyone has a Kharma and everyone is judged by your intentions. So please do what you think is right but please don't be so quick to judge other people.
I don't want to be too harsh on judging others which is why I removed my flag but I still believe this post doesn't deserve any rewards. And I don't think you're being fully honest here. You saw my repository and you decided to snatch my work and use it for commercial purposes without asking me for permission or giving me credit whatsoever. You've even been sending messages to those who have used my service specifically in their wallet, advertising the stolen version. And in your post, you mention that your next work is going to be an instant registration tool . Let me guess where you're going to get the code for that. My repository again... And you haven't improved anything. You have only changed the UI by linking the front-end to some pre-defined set of open-source css classes.