Regarding complaints about many empty shell software that violates the agreement on Google Play

[gooooid]

This is a very good GPL licensed open source project, but there is a problem that is destroying open source, and that is that many thieves built this open source project and then only changed a few button colors and added a lot of advertising for profit.

Open source projects and GPL licenses should be respected.

I think everyone who is using and liking this open source project should take action and report the thieves' evil deeds to Google. These thieves violate Google developer policies. I have compiled some links to people suspected of stealing.

These thieves’ apps have even accumulated more than 10,000+ downloads..... The behavior of these thieves will affect the enthusiasm of the open source community

I haven't checked out all the apps below, but they're not innocent.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roy93group.hexviewer

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onlinetool.hexviewer

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thetomictools.bin.fileopener.binviewer.bin.file.open

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movemore.binfileread.sm

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trinsic.bin.file.opener.viewer.binviewer.asciicode.ascii.converter.bin.opener

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bin.fileopener.binarycodes.binviewer.binreader.kv

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binviewer.bin.fileopener.binaryopener.binopener.bliss

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binfile.viewer.bin.reader

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syberlytics.bin.file.opener.viewer.binary.convertor

[Keidan]

Wow, thank you so much for your effort.

I don't know what to think. In principle, the GPL does not prevent someone from exploiting this project. However, if I'm not mistaken, there should at least be credits on my work and that of the contributors.

I think there are clearly people who have used this project to put it on Google Play. What's a shame is that some of them have made modifications that I find interesting, and they could simply have participated in this project by proposing pull requests....

What's next? Honestly, I'm not sure I want to waste time and energy tracking all this down. As far as my work is concerned, I can live with it, but I'm more bothered by the work of contributors who are no longer credited, and who find themselves mixed up with this gang of scammers.

To top it all off, Google's reporting system is long and tedious.

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