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by Buttons840 666 days ago
It's Apache licensed. Clause 4 does say some things about accreditation, etc.

IANAL, but simplifying the [what-I-call] legal enumeration, it says: "You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright notices from the Source form of the Work".

Did you put any copyright notices in your work? If not, it may be too late, because they can continue to distribute the old version that did not have copyright notices.

There's also some requirements that they clearly identify anything they have changed, but I'm guessing they haven't changed much. Maybe their sneaky way of changing the branding would violate this? I don't know, IANAL.

If you believe they have not complied with this part of the license, then what they are doing is no different than hosting your copyrighted movie or book on GitHub and you can send a takedown request, sue for damages, etc. It may not be worth the cost though.

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> Did you put any copyright notices in your work? If not, it may be too late, because they can continue to distribute the old version that did not have copyright notices.

This is not how copyright works. Without a license, default copyright law applies, and no one can make any copy of the code and profit from it, even if published on Github. Copyright protection is automatic under the Berne Convention, implemented by the US Copyright Act and EU Directive 2001/29/EC, meaning no registration or notice is required for protection.