Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
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Minitap engineers found their open-source mobile-use code in Google's Artemis repo with attribution removed.
Minitap's team identified near-identical code, prompts, and examples in Google's Artemis repository for mobile automation. An earlier Artemis package file credited Minitap developers Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, and Nicolas Dehandschoewercker; a later force push replaced those names with a single unknown author. Comparisons show shared code for ADB tunneling, Hopper agent instructions (named after a Minecraft reference), and a WhatsApp messaging example with identical comments and bugs. Minitap seeks acknowledgment under Apache 2.0 license terms and has an open issue on the Artemis repository.
Google's Artemis comparison chart omitted Minitap's mobile-use while including other projects. Minitap also reports unanswered emails since January about updating their 100% benchmark score on AndroidWorld's leaderboard, which still shows 91.4%.
What commenters are saying
Commenters largely condemn Google, citing the deliberate force push to remove original authors as damning. One notes Google removed its 'don't be evil' motto years ago. A commenter suggests the replacement author might be a random person, not an employee. Others flag that Google is now adding credits via a commit, but skepticism remains: critics call it a coverup, noting the issue remains closed. One comment questions whether LLM-generated code could be uncopyrightable. Another sees the pyproject.toml author change as normal maintainer metadata, not a license violation.