Yes, that's exactly what they did and why it was a problem. They represented themselves as the sole author. I want to say that they'd never even sent in a single PR, but this was over 10 years ago and I just heard the story over lunch (the real author told us all about it).
Seriously? You think that if people insinuate plagiarized stuff was theirs but don't say so, that's not a problem per se. I've seen this loads of times. You don't think insinuating is a very bad character signal?
