This 1000$ meeting assumes SV programmer salaries. I can assure you that many places in the world have much smaller salaries. Also, they are already planning t

This 1000$ meeting assumes SV programmer salaries. I can assure you that many places in the world have much smaller salaries. Also, they are already planning to go to court to prevent releasing any code, so finding a way to spend a few thousand dollars or even a few tens of thousands to avoid court entirely would be a no-brainer. Going to court and saying "we made an effort to appease them but these people just want too much" is much better than going to court and saying "let's settle a new area of law to determine if this people have a right to sue us for very obviously ignoring the terms of this software license".