At my current job when I was first hired a coworker strongly recommended an open source application not knowing I wrote it. In this case there was no money invo

At my current job when I was first hired a coworker strongly recommended an open source application not knowing I wrote it. In this case there was no money involved with that open source personal application. I would say your scenario is absolutely an ethical violation called a conflict of interest. https://compliance.ucf.edu/understanding-conflict-of-interest/ https://compliance.ucf.edu/understanding-conflict-of-interes... In some cases a failure to disclose a conflict could be illegal, as in a form of fraud.