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by openfront 269 days ago
Hey everyone, I'm the creator of https://openfront.io, an open source io game licensed under AGPL/GPL with 120+ contributors. I've spent the last 15 months working on this game, even quit my job to work on it full time.

Recently a game studio called 3am Experiences, owned by "Mistik" (he purchased diep.io a while back) has ripped my game and called it "frontwars". The copy is blatant - he literally just find/replaced "openfront" with "frontwars" throughout the codebase. There is no clear attribution to OpenFront, and he's even claiming copyright on work he doesn't own.

OpenFront actually made it to the front page of HackerNews a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528943

Questions for HN:

* Has anyone successfully enforced AGPL violations? What worked?

* Given it's a Wyoming LLC - best legal approach?

* Should I pursue copyright AND license violation, or focus on one?

* Any lawyers here experienced with AGPL enforcement?