LGPL violation/Missing references to Ethereumj project

For those that haven&#x27;t heard of TRON, it is what I would call one of the most successful scams in the history of cryptocurrency. It is a currency that was made on top of Ethereum (thus, it took no actual effort to create, as this can be done instantly and for free), paired with a significant amount of hype and lies to investors.<p>The TRON Whitepaper (what investors are &#x27;supposed&#x27; to read and invest off of) is written terribly and copies significantly from other successful projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethtrader&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7oeh92&#x2F;trons_trx_whitepaper_raises_more_red_flags_than_a&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethtrader&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7oeh92&#x2F;trons_trx...</a><p>It&#x27;s possible that the CEO of TRON made at least $300M USD from selling his own coins that he created out of thin air: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethtrader&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7oh01s&#x2F;trx_tron_founder_justin_sun_sold_6billion_tron&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethtrader&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7oh01s&#x2F;trx_tron_...</a><p>The CEO tweets in ways specifically designed to entice investors to speculate on his coin, such as specifically telling people it will go up in value: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinsuntron&#x2F;status&#x2F;947463313775927297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinsuntron&#x2F;status&#x2F;947463313775927297</a>, or specifically saying the downwards price movement is due to changes to CoinMarketCap information (completely false): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinsuntron&#x2F;status&#x2F;951191786902274048" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;justinsuntron&#x2F;status&#x2F;951191786902274048</a><p>Some investors in TRON have lost up to 66% of their net worth thus far (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;tron&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinmarketcap.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;tron&#x2F;</a>), making it one of the largest crashes that has been seen in the top 10 coins on CoinMarketCap in quite awhile. Some of the things investors believe are completely absurd, citing that the Chinese government or Amazon will use TRON. It&#x27;s unfortunate the levels of misinformation that so rampantly spread and cause many to lose their hard-earned money.

Phew! As the owner of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tron.pk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tron.pk</a> I literally spilled my morning coffee over the keyboard, just reading the title.

&gt; appear to be straightforward imports from sphlib ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saphir2.com&#x2F;sphlib&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saphir2.com&#x2F;sphlib&#x2F;</a> ), with just the license removed and replaced with their own.<p>That is so blatant:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tronprotocol&#x2F;java-tron&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java&#x2F;org&#x2F;tron&#x2F;crypto&#x2F;cryptohash&#x2F;KeccakCore.java" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tronprotocol&#x2F;java-tron&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;src&#x2F;m...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jnorthrup&#x2F;sphlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java&#x2F;fr&#x2F;cryptohash&#x2F;KeccakCore.java" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jnorthrup&#x2F;sphlib&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;jav...</a><p>It&#x27;s written right there in the license block they cut and replaced &quot;The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software&quot;.

&gt; For those who are whining about this issue. All these issues are common in development. If you say it&#x27;s not, you haven&#x27;t worked on serious projects with so much pressure to deliver.<p>Don&#x27;t most &quot;serious&quot; companies have lawyers that will spit venom at you if you even think about looking at code that doesn&#x27;t have a permissible enough license?

Is tron name itself a violation of trademark, or copyright of Disney? Not much knowledgable on IP laws in the US, hence the question.

...annnnd no relation to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TRON_project" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TRON_project</a> - the Japanese RTOS. Also no relation to JTRON - the Java implementation of TRON.

I think the ethereumj commenters come-off as whiny in all this and they are most certainly confusing LGPL with GPL. Calm the f down, seriously.

The code seems most heavily copied from ethereumj

Tron will be an interesting beast. So many believers there.

There is another nice project which just copy pasted others papers to get own white paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cubeintel.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cubeintel.com</a><p>A little more analysis about cube: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ak239spb&#x2F;how-to-build-fake-ico-9f837a4eba3d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ak239spb&#x2F;how-to-build-fake-ico-9f837a4eb...</a>