You can then write some proprietary components and add a note to the original work that to get additional features, they should email you. M&M principle could also work.
Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licensed code?
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Re: Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licensed code?
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If someone else wants to claim my work as theirs, it's annoying yeah, this is probably it. It's just annoying that they have taken credit for my work while intentionally excluding me from the credit. I don't have enough time or money to engage them on a legal level so I guess we'll just see how it plays out.
Could you barrage their repo with ‘issues’ where you ask why they stole your work? I imagine the users would stumble upon that
Re: Ask HN: What to do when somebody “steals” your MIT licensed code?
#13IANAL, but sticking a mendacious LICENCE on the code looks to me to be fraud, rather than copyright violation. It seems pretty clear-cut to me, so you might be able to get a legal opinion to that effect in a half-hour consultation.
In the UK, many solicitors will give you a 30-minute consultation for nothing.