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Google's Artemis allegedly copied Minitap's mobile-use code and removed original author names
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Minitap's team found that Google's Artemis project contained code identical to their open-source mobile-use project, including matching agent instructions, examples, and a shared bug, while original author names were removed from package files via a force push.
The Apache 2.0 license on mobile-use requires preserving copyright and attribution notices during redistribution, which Artemis apparently did not do. If maintainers must chase missing attribution after a larger company republishes their work, it adds an unacknowledged cost to open-sourcing code and could discourage people from sharing it.
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Google's Artemis contained code matching Minitap's mobile-use project, including identical agent instructions, examples, and a shared bug where a helper failed reading its own output.
Original author names (Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, Nicolas Dehandschoewercker) were removed from Artemis package files via a force push in August and replaced with another author.
The mobile-use project uses Apache 2.0, which requires preserving copyright and attribution notices when redistributing, conditions that were not met in the Artemis distribution checked.
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