Credit open-source libraries and your inspirations

[rupinderjeet]

Hello Hui Zhang,

I have come to know that you're using code from some open-source libraries to support this project. However, you haven't mentioned any of these sources in your project's README file.

Furthermore, you are not including the licence under which these open-source libraries are made available. LICENCE file is missing and stripped off. If you continue to do this, you might be challenged for this kind of practice in future. Doing this is a violation of the licence, and leads to Cyber crime.

It is considered very rude to use a piece of open-source content, make some corrections and modifications, integrate it in another system and publish this other system without ever sharing the fixes or mentioning that you used it anywhere.

It will be a very gentle and professional move if you mention these sources and thank them in a way that is linkable to the source content.

Open-source content doesn't ask for much and people certainly do not make a fortune with the work they put in. Think of what it would mean if you had to code the whole thing from scratch without any outside help.... it's just fair to give these people credit for the work they have done, it is often their only salary and you giving it to them will not take food off your table. But if you can help it, the reputation they could gain from your reference could put food on their table.

Reputation can be a powerful resource, it is hard to earn but so easy to give.

You are now in a position to give it, some day someone else will return the favour.

Some of this text is taken form a stackoverflow answer. See, I did it, this isn't too bad or difficult.