Ripoff, goes against the Open Source philosophy.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/gravity-forms-placeholders/
https://github.com/neojp/gravity-forms-placeholders/

I’m terribly dissapointed to see this plugin “came to life” the way it did.

This code is a complete ripoff of a plugin I built 2 years ago when I found myself constantly building this feature over and over again for our clients. I abstracted the code, packaged it and published it to the WordPress plugin repository with the goal of helping people with the same issues.

This plugin lives as open source code at GitHub, where people can freely fork it and use and modify it however they want. As long as the credits remain.

Sadly, William Wilkerson and Able Engine decided that changing a few variable names, functions and removing all traces of my name on the code was the way to go.

Granted, I did see a 13 lines of JavaScript to handle select tags, but this is not the way free software and open source projects work.

This deeply saddens me and makes pity all other open source authors who might have go through the same experience.

I wish the authors would reconsider and at the very least give the proper credits for this plugin.

Sincerely yours,
Joan Piedra
Author of Gravity Forms – Placeholders add-on.