Maybe he was just ignorant about the situation, recently here on HN, a community is well above the average of the Tech related communities in web, I have seen i

Maybe he was just ignorant about the situation, recently here on HN, a community is well above the average of the Tech related communities in web, I have seen ignorance about copyright ownership and related subjects, so I prefer to believe that the developer was just ignorant, the Appstore model does nothing to educate this type of independent developer without any legal expertise and this type of situation can arise in the future as well.