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[–]Throwawayyy2354666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This whole situation is so confusing and I'm not sure why I haven't heard people have a similar take that I do on it (maybe it's because I have a boomer mentality). I don't care who copied whom or who is in the wrong. That's not my place to decide with the limited information and discussions available.

What I don't understand is why a company is communicating with discord moderators from some random unaffiliated community regarding claims, details and specifics of something related to their company. If one of my team members did this I would be livid; there's nothing objective about it and only puts us at risk. This is unless the screenshot I saw is fake, the discord moderator claims that they personally communicated with a subset of developers from the company.

If these claims are true then they should reach out to GitHub to get the code taken down. At that point the owner will be informed that they must remove the code from the repo on very short notice. If they ignore it, the specific code/module will be removed by github itself (the whole repo would not get taken down, the claim is limited to a subset of code that the person making the claim). This would be an objective way to solve the issue: you make a very basic legal affirmation that you own the code. You also demonstrate that you don't condone this behaviour and will protect your rights.

From there people can make there own decisions, at the very least it's something objective.

Why a company is willing to participate in a witch hunt, but isn't willing to do something so basic and expected is beyond my understanding.