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Re:An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't... by InsomniacL on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:10PM (#30090243)
Firstly, I was addressing the claim in the comment I replied to that it's not open source. It's licenced under MIT

That's not what the licence states at all...

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person ... including without limitation the rights to use .. copies of the Software.

The licence states Permission is granted free of charge to use the software, if the software is charging then that's a breach of the licence..?

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Re:An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't... by abofh on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:51PM (#30090750)
They used the software, it did what it was programmed to do. The breach seems entirely on the licensee
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