I initially engaged with you assuming good faith and you demonstrated that to be incredibly incorrect. I'm not going to try convincing a spineless and unethical person who supports a scam with facts. It's pretty clear you don't care what happened and won't actually check it.
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Well from my point of view, you obfuscated the facts. Digging through all the crap you wrote and my own research it would seem like - you wrote the code and copperhead forked that code. All this crap could have been saved if only you had have been brief and concise.
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That's what I said. I started the project in 2014. I founded a company with 2 other people (James Donaldson and Dan McGrady). I had agreements with them about how it would work. There were no written contracts about anything beyond making a company and dividing shares. That's it.
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But again you have left out a key piece of info. You started a company using the code you wrote but you didn't say that code had been forked.
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The company was started as a security consulting company and was supposed to sell contract work and support. It was not supposed to be based around my project. It was explicitly agreed upon that my open source work would remain under my control and ownership, and it did.
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The company was not starting 'using code' that I wrote. My project was not the basis for the company. The company failed to become an actual security consulting company and ended up not having anything beyond selling people phones flashed with my open source project.
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The company was supposed to have made custom variants of the open source project for vendors. None of that stuff worked out. It was a disaster from the beginning and I was getting less than 20k/year from it. I got more money from Google during those years submitting work to them.
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You seem to be misunderstand what was forked. Near the end, James started trying to coerce me into handing over ownership of my project to him. He framed it as a negotiation but it was anything but that. I never signed over anything to the company and did not make it for them.
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He didn't start claiming that the company owned it until substantially after he failed to convince me to give in to his demands. Once they'd pushed me out, they filed a fraudulent copyright claim falsely claiming that I'd assigned copyright to the company which is totally false.
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They forked my project from GitHub and uploaded it as a new set of repositories. They added a Copperhead copyright notice to their forks to try to retroactively frame it as code that they owned. That died pretty fast, and now they just have a closed source fork of my work.
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The company became totally based around my work because it didn't produce anything of value. It took far more of my money than I received from it. I trusted James with handling the intake of donations for my project. People were told they were donating to me. He stole most of it.
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