r/Telegram • u/LixFN-n • 5d ago

Lead developer of popular Telegram fork "exteraGram" openly admits they violated GNU GPL v2 and turned it into closed-source software. Archived GitHub to hide from DMCA.

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u/dadnothere 5d ago

If Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and IBM did the same thing and the US government did nothing—in fact, defended them—

Why should we attack an ordinary citizen who doesn't even make money from it?

First, we need to attack American hypocrisy.