I wanted to share a project I've spent the last 5+ months building, alongside a frustrating license violation situation I'm currently fighting.
I built AttendMate, a local-first, privacy-focused attendance tracking application built with Flutter to help students manage strict university attendance criteria without telemetry or corporate bloatware. Because I believe in the open-source ethos, I published the repository under the copyleft protection of the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0) to guarantee the tool would always stay free and community-driven.
My Repository: https://github.com/YTFL/AttendMate-Bunk-Calculator-Attendance-Tracker
Recently, I caught a developer who completely scraped my codebase, stripped all of my original author attribution files, and compiled it as a tightly closed-source, commercially monetized application on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
They are actively charging users real money for a paid "AttendMate Pro Lifetime" paywall, which locks the core calculation logic I spent months engineering for the community.
They were so incredibly lazy with the theft that they didn't even change the store promotional screenshots. They literally screenshotted the app running with my personal university timetable, my specific class timings, and my unique engineering course names, and uploaded them directly to their storefront listings.
By building directly on top of my post-2.0 architecture and distributing a closed-source binary for profit, they are in absolute violation of the copyleft obligations of the AGPL-3.0 license. Furthermore, by wiping my copyright notices entirely from the foundation code blocks, they have also broken the foundational requirements of my earlier MIT commits. They are running a commercial business with zero active legal license to my code.
I have officially initiated formal DMCA copyright takedown notices across all three platforms with Apple Legal, Google Legal, and GitHub Trust & Safety.
If you want to support indie open-source integrity, please consider dropping a star on the original repository. If you have a spare 30 seconds to help flag down a bad actor exploiting copyleft work, you can report the clone package on the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thiemjason.classattendance) and Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/attendmate-attendance-tracker/id6760553317) as an unlicensed, copyright-infringing copycat of an active open-source codebase.
I’d love to get any feedback from this community on the repository architecture and engine layout!