Hi ccozan - sorry i couldn't respond straight away, i wrote this last night but because im so new posting restrictions stopped me from sending it. Put yourself in my position just for a moment. I found this website distributing my code passing it off as their own, i send an email, hear nothing, leave a comment, hear nothing, then send a notice - only to receive the same notice back 4 hours later, a blog written a forum thread started.

I gave him the chance to change his mind by sending an email to him because i hate internet politics and i simply wanted him to remove his attribution to my code. Please read my other posts because i even gave him the benefit of doubt by suggesting perhaps a friend had "written" the plugin and he's sticking up for someone who is lieing to him. However some time later he hadn't responded to my email but he had created a response on this thread making out i was a "fake", so at that point i signed up and started to give my facts.

I have an email from him which he sent to my marketplace and host saying he wrote this plugin in May 2012, he has since updated his website to say so and then backtracked when i pointed out to him his site was cached.

Also the same effect to his donation button which he has since removed but can also be found in a cache.

My name is Kevin Steerment, i work for a company called codeworks (however this project was a personal project) and i am the original author of the code that he claimed to write. I don't have a full on profile online because I never thought I would need one, certainly not to prove who I am. I can't sit back and let that happen and then perhaps one day - this get back to me in a bad way. I have never slandered or badmouthed anyone including him, please read all my responses. I've tried to be very fair in the way I've written my responses but as you can understand I am a tad emotional about being accused of something that is simply not true. (So thats why I've defended myself, as anyone would)

I'm happy to answer any additional questions you might have. He has now taken his website offline, removed his github account - not something he needed to do. I simply wanted him to remove my plugin. If he's reading this I want him to know that I simply came on this forum to respond to the false allegation which he started, not to cause any additional problems.

It's a very strange situation because looking through his other work and projects - particularly an online photo editing tool - his skills go way beyond mine and the end result of his work is excellent, I'd even go as far as saying I'd recommend the photo editing tool. Which is why I'm so very very confused!

I hope this can be brushed under the carpet and forgotten about now because i'm sure we all have more important things to be doing.

Kevin

Hey Kevin, thanks for replying, that's quite rare. Given the circumstances, please accept my apollogies for doubting you. You evidently put some effort into getting the truth to the surface and I thank you for this.

With this in mind, I wish you success with getting everything right and/or keep on doing great things.

Thanks ccozan, I'm really not surprised that you or anyone else doubted me. It makes absolutely no sense to me why anyone would fabricate something like this, especially when it's quite clear he's far more experienced than me with his programming abilities! I guess it's something we'll never find out why. I appreciate everyone on here who has given me the time to respond to their queries and thankfully the truth has prevailed :) All the best.