Lazy Cat Microservice founder publicly accuses developers of 'plagiarizing' Remote WeChat: open source project failed to credit original source in code repository

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LazyCat’s founder @manateelazycat posted a series of messages on X platform from May 31 to June 1, directly accusing independent developer Ethan Zou (@gloridust1024) of plagiarizing the complete product design and concept of LazyCat’s “Remote WeChat” in his open-source project “WechatOnCloud (Yunwei)”. He stated that Zou packaged the project as his own original work without any attribution in the code repository’s acknowledgment section, violating the basic norms of the open-source community. Ethan Zou had previously written in his original post on X: “Inspired by teacher @manateelazycat, borrowed some ideas.” However, LazyCat’s side believes that merely mentioning it in a tweet is not sufficient to constitute a proper attribution statement. They demand that the original source be clearly noted in the GitHub project documentation, and emphasize their stance that “even if built with AI from scratch, the design ideas and product concept are still original.” The project supports self-deployment to servers like FNOS, with main features including multiple WeChat instances in the cloud, multi-sub-user allocation, and a native Linux WeChat environment. It is still publicly accessible on GitHub. As of press time, Ethan Zou has not publicly responded to these allegations.

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