The software heritage sent me an email they were going to steal copies of my software. I think they assumed because it was published as a git repo they had unlimited rights to steal, reproduce, sell, etc my copyrighted work.

To quote the email they sent me:

"The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code: https://www.softwareheritage.org"

So they're telling me their intent is to reproduce (share) my work, just because it was publicly available.

Upon my reply they did offer to cancel the request, but also told me they are facilitating the storage of my code for users private theft

" "Add forge now" requests are submitted by Software Heritage users who think that a forge is worth being archived.

After a careful examination of your arguments, we acknowledge that your forges may not be archived, so we won't process their ingestion, and close this add forge now request. However, we cannot prevent a publicly available from being archived by anyone using our "Save code now" feature