I'm assuming these people were offering product and service as opposed to code.

Here's the old scrap of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20191012003358/https://imminentm...

Bung some code whereever but make profit and market it and you've crossed a line.

Currently downvoted but very valid point, ref the Sherlock tool posted the other day: it is not hard for me to imagine more bad uses for it than good, but that alone shouldn't make it illegal.

Same with guns.