If you aren't cool with me using your code, I respect that. I don't like forcing people to give up anything including their rights to their own repo. I just do

If you aren't cool with me using your code, I respect that. I don't like forcing people to give up anything including their rights to their own repo. I just don't feel comfortable working on someone's code if they aren't willingly consenting to it. just not cool at all! Human consent is just not a permanent thing. Besides if the file disappears from the remote source, you can still build for the time being. It's not the end of your project, but it may be the end of someone else's career - you never know what reasons people had. Just respect peoples rights over their data. The constant argument, "it's already on the internet" doesn't absolve any of us, from respecting peoples reservations. And if it's "already on the internet" then you can trust that someone will illegally copy and repost the repo on-line but where does that leave us ethically? not the way I roll.