我的開源代碼被科技巨頭偷了，對方還跑到我面前演示

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"近日，一位開發者發博揭露了一次被科技巨頭竊取代碼的經歷。"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"我的開源代碼被偷了"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"對於開發人員來說，可能或多或少聽過 DTrace，這是一款表現優異的性能分析工具。《性能之巔》這本書從推薦序開始就不停地給 DTrace 打廣告，該工具由 Sun 公司開發，沒錯，就是推出了著名的 Java 編程語言的 Sun 公司。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Sun 曾經有多麼輝煌想必各位開發者也都瞭解。頂峯時期，Sun 的市值一度超過 2000 億美元，吊打第二名 Google 和第三名 IBM，它發明的多項技術至今仍然流行。比如 Sun 發佈的 NFS （網絡文件系統），至今都是計算機網絡文件共享的標準。此外，這家公司還是開源軟件的忠實支持者，但偏偏就在這事兒上翻了車。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"前不久，一位名叫 Brendan Gregg 開發者在博客上公開了自己寫的與 DTrace 項目相關的開源代碼被 Sun 公司“偷走”的往事。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"早在 2005 年，Brendan Gregg 就忙着編寫和發佈 DTrace 相關的高級性能工具，包括他自己編寫的開源 DTrace Toolkit 以及其他 DTrace 腳本工具。做着做着，他發現了一個奇怪的現象：作爲該工具的發行者，Sun 公司發佈的相關工具竟然比自己發佈的還少，這是什麼情況？難道 Sun 公司內部在醞釀某個神祕的大版本或者大項目佔用了太多精力？"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"由於作者本人並不是 Sun 公司的員工，所以不太瞭解 Sun 的內部運作情況，但當時也負責爲 Sun 提供培訓與諮詢支持，支持他們的客戶完成系統管理與性能優化方面的工作。不久之後，Sun 公司聯繫 Brendan Gregg，表示有位極具份量的人物要從美國去澳大利亞拜訪（作者本人常年呆在澳大利亞），希望可以爲 Brendan Gregg 演示基於 DTrace 打造的新產品。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Brendan Gregg 對此期待不已，因爲那個時候的 Sun 開發了很多非常不錯的工具和技術。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"見面後，Brendan Gregg 雖然覺得對方語氣不佳，但也非常配合地看完了對方的全部演示，只可惜並沒有出現預期中的重磅功能，甚至發現其中一些工具是自己編寫的腳本，而且這些工具非常不成熟，是作者當年隨手寫了並對外開源的，裏面有很多奇怪的組合，比如在 defaultargs 之前使用 PFORMAT 之類，而且有很強烈的個人風格。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"隨後，作者用 grep 在所有演示工具中都找到了自己的名字，當初就明明白白寫在工具的標題註釋裏，足夠證明這些都是作者所有。但是，作者什麼都沒找着，看來 Sun 把名字都給刪掉了。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"一部分工具裏倒是出現了以下內容："}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"blockquote","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Author: Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"作者立刻提出質疑，相當於 Sun 不僅使用了作者的開源代碼，還特意隱去了作者的姓名、版權及許可證等相關信息，並且還千里迢迢過來給作者演示，之後再公開出售。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"盜用了我的代碼就算了，還跑到我面前演示，這就是你不對了吧？"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"當然，不排除這件事情是 Sun 公司個別員工的行爲，畢竟此前作者開發的 DTraceToolkit 至少被四次內置在可觀察性產品當中，但許可證仍然保留原樣。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"相比於 Sun 公司的行爲，蘋果和甲骨文的做法就讓作者舒服很多。博客最後，作者表示，幾年後，蘋果把我的幾十款工具添加進了 OS X 系統中，並完整保留了作者的姓名、版權以及 CDDL 開源許可證，甚至還對功能進行了改進與增強。多年之後，甲骨文在 Oracle Solaris 11、BSD 社區在 FereBSD 上也採取了同樣的開源成果吸納方式。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"作者本人的完整敘述："},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"http:\/\/www.brendangregg.com\/blog\/2021-06-04\/an-unbelievable-demo.html","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"http:\/\/www.brendangregg.com\/blog\/2021-06-04\/an-unbelievable-demo.html"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"開源不易，且用且珍惜"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"創造並維護一個開源項目是非常苦的事情。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"此前，坐擁百萬用戶的開源項目 Babel 引起開發者關注。Babel 宣佈，儘管有 Airbnb、Facebook、Salesforce、Gitpod、GatsbyJS、Discord 和 Elastic 等企業的贊助，但由於花錢速度繼續高於獲取捐贈的速度，項目儲備資金目前只夠維持到 2021 年底。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"去年，Redis 之父宣佈退出開源項目維護，他說：“最近幾年來，我每天的工作內容發生了很大變化。我把大部分精力花在檢查其他開發者提交的 Redis 代碼、改進代碼質量以及提升軟件正確性、速度與安全性方面。但我真的不喜歡這類維護工作。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"更重要的是，這種全年無休的上班生活讓他無法放鬆，從而無法做一些創造性的工作。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"甚至對於全球頂級的開源項目 Linux，Linux 之父也很擔憂沒人繼續維護內核。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"沒錢、沒人，全靠開發者的熱情很難以爲繼。並且，近幾年大公司“偷盜”開源項目代碼的事件時有發生。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"去年，一名開發者停掉了用兩年的業餘時間開發並維護的開源項目 AppGet，雖然項目取得了比較大的成功，但不幸的是，微軟在自家大會上推出了同樣的項目。最終，這名開發者只得停止維護並終結掉了自己的開源項目，但他給出了一系列的證據表示微軟在剽竊。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"對此事件感興趣的讀者歡迎閱讀："},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.infoq.cn\/article\/71svTTgb7Q3Nx5rvmBk8","title":"","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"https:\/\/www.infoq.cn\/article\/71svTTgb7Q3Nx5rvmBk8"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"就連 Brendan Gregg 本人也表示，這不是第一次有人拿着自己代碼跑過來演示了。最後，希望所有開發者在遇到比較理想的開源工具或者庫的時候，不要直接重寫，而是按照原樣進行 Build，並定期獲取更新。很多開源方案都在不斷演進中，重寫（分叉）只會分流工程資源，甚至導致客戶用到已經過時的版本。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"開源不易，且用且珍惜！"}]}]}