> I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefully a place where I could onboard new maintainers He was hoping for a fruitful co

> I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefully a place where I could onboard new maintainers He was hoping for a fruitful collaboration and offered the help towards this goal. MS taking whatever they wanted anyway just proves that they had no intention to cooperate, let alone to pay handsomely for something that was already free. Ending up in court means you need to sue the megacorp to enforce the license. This makes it a free lunch for a megacorp. With every single scenario MS takes whatever they need. They don't have to pay, don't need the help to read code, and you can't afford to force them to respect the license. P.S. > As soon as you got a legal letter for any of them, your first step should be to send it to as many news outlets you could think of. There's a guy rotting away in a El Salvadorian prison with a lot of press to keep him comfort. Not sure your letter will capture the world's attention like you think it will.