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Stealing seems an almost libellous term for using a software with a revenue model the author did not bother checking out.

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The software says nothing about taking 30% under certain circumstances.

> Kindly reminder, do not use a fake license key or a license key from others, do not share your license key with others. Abuse of the license key may cause negative impact. [0]

This is the closest it gets to calling out the the 30% but I agree, it should be clearer.

[0] https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic...

It shouldn't be clearer - the plugin author should require an affirmative response from the developer that they accept those terms.

> It shouldn't be clearer - the plugin author should require an affirmative response from the developer that they accept those terms.

Ehh, I disagree. We all know developers would click through any terms without reading anyway and the onerous is on us to read the license before we integrate 3rd party code, which we rarely do. I see this as /just deserts/, a sort of hat tip and "well played sir". The 30% that is not mentioned is the sticking point, the 2% is absolutely reasonable and I might even say I'd think 30% is reasonable IF it had been called out in the license.

The affirmative response is downloading and using the plugin.

The only thing plugin users agreed to was the LICENSE, which is actually MIT!

https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

>the plugin author should require an affirmative response from the developer that they accept those terms.

It's free software provided without warranty. It's right there in the MIT license.

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