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by somat 421 days ago
What was the nature of the stolen(infringed really) code? Because a naive first glance show that they were distributing source code from a project that requires that you distribute source code.... shrugs, what's the problem here?

So was it removing license comments from the files?

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It's plagiarism.

They laundered source code from a free software project in a deliberate attempt to deceive.

(allegedly, etc.)