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Particularly with the last anecdote, it seems that the evergreen problem with open-source licenses is not the choice of license or the particulars of the terms,

Particularly with the last anecdote, it seems that the evergreen problem with open-source licenses is not the choice of license or the particulars of the terms, but enforcing the terms at all. Bad actors have free reign to threaten and intimidate fair use development. While FOSS developers are having to defend themselves from these spurious claims, they have little recourse to pursue real infringement of their work.

deathanatos 4y ago
> Bad actors have free reign to threaten and intimidate fair use development. IANAL; I want to avoid calling the last example "fair use development", as "fair use" — which is a copyright concept — is not being relied upon here: there was a license (the MIT license) issued with the code, with which the "{Developer}" was, AFAICT from the OP, obeying. I do agree that the development/use by "{Developer}" appears "fair" (in the more colloquial/common sense of the word), given the information presented.