Wow, I'm late to this, but having a lawyer send a letter to a student's university to try to get them in trouble for open source contributions they made on their own time is very not ok.
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Hard to tell as an outsider who's right about the original issue in the thread (i.e. not this letter portion), but not 20 minutes ago the same person shameforwarded someone's tweet to their employer so it doesn't seem like they've learned much about proper discourse
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I mean, it's not that hard to form a weak opinion on the original issue, but holy shit you don't lawyer-letter a PhD student's university. Fuck that. I wouldn't care even if he was right.
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He did this to because he helped with porting my open source work on hardening Bionic libc to a newer version of Android. The work was published under open source licenses and I'm the author and owner of it. Copperhead agreed to sponsor my work under those terms.
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Yep, that was my understanding too and I believe it, but I wanted to stress that regardless of the details of how work-for-hire law interacts with your agreement or whatever legal details, ONE DOESN'T MAIL THE UNIVERSITY OF A PHD STUDENT OVER IT.
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They've done worse than this too: they've threatened contributors that are under 18 after looking into their internet footprint and trying to find a way to intimidate them. They've posted people's personal addresses too while making it seem like it was part of a legal process.