Delve claiming that whistleblower was part of a "targeted cyberattack"

The whistleblower claim against them that I've seen:

> "Delve allegedly took an open source tool and passed it off as its own work without proper license attribution. The Delve folks said they built it themselves, the whistleblower contends. DeepDelver then presented alleged evidence that this tool was actually a fork — a modified copy — of SimStudio, changed just enough to be passed off as Delve’s own. If that proves true, it would be a violation of the Apache software license, which requires the original developer be credited."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled...

Their defense in this article:

> "falsely claims we “stole” from another YC company when in reality we built on an Apache 2.0 open-source repository"

I'm really confused. Unlikely that they misunderstood the accusation. This looks a bit like admitting to half of the accusation, while completely misrepresenting what the accusation was, so that they could say that the whistleblower is a liar.

Previously (18 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635616

Title: Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks