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Originally Posted by Nikkanu
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This is beyond shady. Copying and pasting someone's GPL code, altering it for your own use, and then being resistant to making the code publicly available is at the very least copyright infringement which unless you live in some third world country is illegal.
Let's be honest here, you're likely not planning to do this out of the kindness of your heart and absorb the hosting costs which will grow as the site gains features and popularity.
Creating a site for public use based on code that isn't 100% your own creation from scratch and not making that code publicly available is asking for a lawsuit and/or criminal charges.
At the very least you should have contacted tristantio before stealing his code and attempting to use it in a way that violates AGPLv3.
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As any professional programmer knows, violating a licensing agreement is a MAJOR breach of etiquette. OP's actions were not only a giant middle finger to Trsitiano, they in fact broke the law ...
... BUT, if someone from a foreign country gives you the middle finger because they have a different culture, you don't punch them in the face
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If you violate the GPL you don't go directly to jail, you are just obligated to get into compliance. OP seems inclined to do that, and since he's obviously not super familiar with OSS licenses I think it's ok to give him the benefit of the doubt. As the saying goes, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (and really this wasn't even stupidity, just ignorance).