Photopea creator Ivan Kutskir opened an issue on the GPL-3.0 Photosuite repository accusing the project of copying his work, pointing to matching minified source such as its handling of the SoLd PSD object and noting the repo appeared two weeks earlier under an author with no public name or email. Photosuite author eolix says the project began from a mirrored offline Photopea build, credits Photopea as prior art, and has since been rearchitected into roughly 330 source files with features Photopea lacks; he banned Kutskir from the repo, prompting him to post from a second account. Commenters are split, with one contributor saying side-by-side sweeps found the code overwhelmingly original apart from some proprietary assets.
Photopea creator accuses open source Photosuite of copying his editor's code
Photopea creator Ivan Kutskir opened an issue on the GPL-3.0 Photosuite repository accusing the project of copying his work, pointing to matching minified source such as its handling of the SoLd PSD object and noting the repo appeared two weeks earlier under an author with no public name or email. Photosuite author eolix says the project began from a mirrored offline Photopea build, credits Photopea as prior art, and has since been rearchitected into roughly 330 source files with features Photopea lacks; he banned Kutskir from the repo, prompting him to post from a second account. Commenters are split, with one contributor saying side-by-side sweeps found the code overwhelmingly original apart from some proprietary assets.
Source: Github