> The team that made dataroom has stated that they did not use any of papermark’s code and that dataroom was made from scratch with inspiration from existing document sharing softwares, and that this post’s allegations of us stealing code are false. [...]

The screenshots clearly show they copied whole pages verbatim, both design and texts. The founder, Nico Laqua, basically responding with "we didn't copy _code_" and not taking any responsibility says a lot about his and his company's moral code. It might not be enough to get sued. That doesn't make it right.

https://x.com/nico_laqua/status/2070158170937581951

You have to share the source code even when the user interacts over the network with the software.

The project which uses that code, must also be AGPL,

There are ways to separate it and go around it, for example, using an AGPL auth server shouldn't affect the code where your business logic lives

I am sure they could have found a way to design their product to be compliant, especially following past drama.

This is assuming the code is indeed copied, since we don't know that for sure, it does look very similar but I am not sure how that is enforced

> Hey Nico,

> It looks like you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark's open source and enterprise-licensed code.

> We demand you take this copyright and license infringing product down immediately.

> It's not moving fast and breaking things, it's fraud.

> It makes the rest of your business questionable and the YC community look terrible.

"This ain't what a C&D looks like. Implies you don't actually have a leg to stand on. Upload a copy of your official legal demand (from a lawyer) or I'll forever see your company as one who attempts to bully the competition in public"

-- https://xcancel.com/jacobhartmannx/status/207012600834729596...

Is this just trolling?!

“Team effort”

“:praying-hands (x2)”

And so on… The audacity and complete shamelessness…

I wonder what narrative they tell themselves.