@MELERIX this is not only about ethics, this is about a legal contract we have and our users agree the moment they get our source code/binary files, even infamous laws like DMCA protect us from copyright theft.
@coder89 You are wrong, you do not need to commit it to a public SVN to break the license, if you have our source and remove credits or replace license you are breaking our software license.
I believe, as long time open source developer, that things like this cannot be avoided, in fact they should be expected and as main project we should let the other projects know way to act.
Finally I think that ThePhoenixBird took the right steps contacting this user and informing the situation, taking the time to explain the things the way they are, I think the job is done here, I don't expect much from an user that call moron other forum users, by the way you have got yourself a well-deserved forum warning.
Good luck with your project, the life expectancy of a project that starts with "cleanup patches" that consist on removing authorship from files is almost none.
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)