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these 2 dashboards have a lot of in common...

https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard https://github.com/cmrunton/tls-dashboard

You are right its the exact same dashboard. I never said it was original. I've used the static version of crumtons project and turned it into a configurable webservice. While doing so I copied and modified code from the original project, wrote some tests and published it as is.

I didn't remember the name of the original author/project, until someone linked me towards the github page. Since then I've added a proper link.

It was never my intend to steal copyrighted material. I just wanted it to be done how I thought it should be done.

Hi Jens_. I'm the one who wrote the TLS certificate dashboard that the other posters are referring to here. While I don't mind people forking the dashboard I made and modifying it for their own purposes (that's why I put it up on GH after all), I do mind when proper credit isn't given for the work that I've done. I'm not interested in starting a war of words on the Internet, so all I'll say at this point is that I appreciate that you've updated your readme with a link to my project and added the license to your repo. Have a great day.

He did say he saw a similar project on GitHub.

"I've seen a static version of this project on github, but I forgot the name of the original project. It is his static version of the dashboard turned into a configurable service that spits out HTML & JSON."

EDIT:

I think he gave proper credits.

Yes, and the other project was on here just 4 days ago [1]. I had actually tried it out myself so I was surprised to see this.

Just writing:

> I've seen a static version of this project on github, but I forgot the name of the original project. It is his static version of the dashboard turned into a configurable service that spits out HTML & JSON.

is unfair to the original author and just doesn't cut it in this case. I see that the MIT license is there, but the original [2] has this line added to the copyright notice:

> Copyright (c) Craine Runton

The MIT license requires reproducing the copyright notice in full, that includes this line as well. Even if it's just small parts of the original project that were used/modified.

It's very cool when someone makes their work available for everyone to see and use, it's not cool to just steal it and even go so far as to rename variables from the original just for the sake of it, see commit [3] (e.g. config.js)!

And even after that, the code still looks very similar. Just take a look at config.js [4-5] and get_cert_info.js [6-7].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770856

[2]https://github.com/cmrunton/tls-dashboard/blob/master/LICENS...

[3] https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard/commit/...

[4] https://github.com/cmrunton/tls-dashboard/blob/master/node_a...

[5]https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard/blob/ma...

[6]https://github.com/cmrunton/tls-dashboard/blob/master/node_a...

[7]https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard/blob/ma...

Frankly saying I'm not 100% sure who copied the code from other. Cmrunton's version is younger than Jens' one (based on the repository history and commits), but Jens admits that code for the dashboard was picked somewhere.

Code is, clearly, very very similar, I've checked both dashboards, this why I've posted the initial comment.

Jens' first commit [1] was 3 days ago, the repo is a fork of the node-js-getting-started example repo and all older commits [2] are not by him and related to that repo.

Craine's project was already done and posted here by then [3], the situation is very clear here.

[1] https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard/commit/...

[2] https://github.com/JensDebergh/certificate-dashboard/commits...

[3] https://github.com/cmrunton/tls-dashboard/commits/master

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