Minitap engineers have accused Google of incorporating their open-source mobile automation code into the new Artemis project without proper attribution or acknowledgment of the original project's contributors.

Key Points

• Minitap developers identified identical code, specific agent instructions, and shared bugs between their "mobile-use" project and Google’s Artemis.
• The Minitap team reported that their names were removed from an earlier version of the Artemis repository via a force push in August.
• The mobile-use project is licensed under Apache 2.0, which requires the preservation of copyright and attribution notices during redistribution.
• Minitap claims their higher benchmark results were ignored by the AndroidWorld leaderboard while Google’s Artemis was featured with lower scores.
• Minitap has formally contacted Google and opened a public issue on the Artemis repository requesting proper credit for their work.

Why it Matters

This dispute highlights growing concerns regarding the treatment of open-source contributions by major technology companies. If developers feel their work is routinely misappropriated without credit, it may discourage the collaborative sharing that sustains the broader software development ecosystem.