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title: "Meituan's first AI browser caught in \"code plagiarism\" controversy? Multiple parties respond"
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locale: "en"
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description: "The Tabbit team of Meituan responded to the controversy regarding allegations of code plagiarism in its first AI browser. The team stated that on December 30 of last year, they became aware of the read-frog open-source project while developing the translation feature and forked the project. Since the project did not have an open-source license declaration at that time, the team failed to notice the GPLv3 license added by the original author on January 2 in a timely manner, and thus did not continue to merge subsequent code"
datetime: "2026-03-03T09:19:44.000Z"
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# Meituan's first AI browser caught in "code plagiarism" controversy? Multiple parties respond

On March 3rd, the Tabbit team responded via Weibo, stating that on December 30th of last year, the team noticed the read-frog open-source project while developing the translation feature. At that time, the project repository did not contain any open-source license declaration. After evaluation, the team forked the project (a common branching replica in the open-source industry) to develop it as an independent project. On January 2nd of this year, the original author of the project added the GPLv3 license. Since the team did not continue to merge subsequent code from the original project, they failed to pay timely attention to this license change

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