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No legal basis. They still might have an ethical basis regarding Microsoft's behavior, because law != ethics.

If the author has ethical concerns with companies using their work there's a simple way to make that explicit and unambigious – the license. No one can read their mind otherwise.

It's not the first time I see something like this.

The flake8 (MIT license) maintainer is upset that ruff is copying his lints, for example.

I find the whole thing bizarre.

If you consult with someone over their project, then proceed to fork it behind their back, that's just being a dick, even if it was perfectly legal. We should not accept that kind of behavior. And that's even ignoring that the consultation was unpaid and the project was actually even stolen.

> We should not accept that kind of behavior.

What exactly is this supposed to mean? We will not be asked. Only alienated teens care if strangers "accept" them.

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