What's the status of the license on this? The author made it Apache, but Bumble is making claims on it because of the employee's contract. It wasn't the employe

What's the status of the license on this? The author made it Apache, but Bumble is making claims on it because of the employee's contract. It wasn't the employee's to release in the first place (as per the contract), but once it's out there, did the employee essentially open source it as an rogue agent of the company? At the same time, a Microsoft employee can't open source Windows and just say "oops." As a developer using open source code, how can you ever have enough certainty that an open source project won't run into issues like this?