Devsense commercial VSCode PHP debugger is obfuscated open-source library

You should give them a friendly reminder that removal or alteration of, or false provision of, copyright management information, is a separate offense under the DMCA that they can be liable for.

(IE you could commit no copyright infringement, and still be liable for removing/altering/falsifying the CMI).

see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1202 and https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1203

Unlike their hilarious reverse engineering "reminder", fair use is not a defense to this.

Response from the company: "Friendly reminder,reverse engineering is a violation of license terms."

Wow, just wow.

This is corporatism at its ugliest.

Wow these guys are ungrateful idiots.

Managing to violate MIT is pretty special in its own right but instead of acknowledging the author, or thanking them for their work and promising to comply with the license, they threaten the guy?!

Is there a good way to crowdsource a legal ass-kicking?

Ianal but how does this violate MIT. This is not a serious question, I would like to learn.