The MIT license includes a parragraph: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of

The MIT license includes a parragraph: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Clearly those copying the software and changing the copyright information (or simply not including the above) were in violation of the licence and could be sued for copyright infringement. They can also continue doing that too, since changing string of a disassembled binary isn't that hard.