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superduper / BrightnessMenulet

BrightnessMenulet is an Mac OS X app that allows you to control display brightness via DDC/CI protocol
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[POSSIBLY UNSAFE] Mac AppStore listing with stolen / tampered binary? #7

Open splendidbits opened 8 years ago

splendidbits commented 8 years ago

Warning: DO NOT INSTALL

While I may be completed mistaken here, and you are indeed the owner of the Brightness Menu application with the same features (and icon) on the Mac App Store[1], it's unlikely, and more likely that your work was stolen and repurposed.

I would recommend sending a DMCA to the author, and immediately contacting Apple. The binary could be malicious (within the limits of the MAS sandboxing), and it could end up causing you trouble. Not to mention that it's just a stolen ripoff that has not been re-open sourced. He appears to have a twitter account[2]

If i'm wrong, feel free to delete this, and sorry for wasting your time. Great app

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brightness-2/id958895064?mt=12 [2] http://twitter.com/sandwichlab

superduper commented 8 years ago

It's hard to tell anything about licensing. Original source code by @alecjacobson had no LICENSE.md.