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I've heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they do it so they can take down malicious copycats on Google Play

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which they could already do, with basic trademark law and just forcing all derivatives to be non-commercial. Cyrptominers are commercial.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Forcing all derivatives work to be non-commercial is incompatible with being open source.

https://opensource.org/osd/

Though I agree that they can already prevent usage of their app name with trademark laws.