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> Invidious isn’t my project, I don’t own the “Invidious” trademark, I’m not Invidious, I don’t represent Invidious. I’m just… me. > Invidious is.

The post comes off as a little idealistic and dismissive. I hope they have given enough thought and have sufficient countermeasures in place for the project if the law disagree with their view.

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This is silly. IANAL but if there’s no legally registered entity that owns the copyright and trademarks to the project, with code signed over with CLA then as far as I know the copyright belongs to all of the authors of the code by default. So to “whom it may concern” applies to everyone who has ever worked on the project.

He might not soely be invidious, but from a legal perspective I’d wager all of the contributors are, and a “nuh huh” is not gonna fly in court.

Methinks the developer doth protest too much.

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