If you had linked that comment in your first reply, I would have agreed with you and we probably wouldn't have had any of this to talk about :)
A license granted by accident without consideration in return is not a "no takebacks!" situation. If I paid for that license and then you said, it was granted by mistake, I may have a legal leg to stand on in terms of "no takebacks" claims. But if it's just a URL, I'm pretty sure I actually don't need any license or your permission to copy it.
(If you wanted the data that the URL serves up to be protected, then you should have implemented some kind of actual protection scheme, like a token auth system that restricts access to authorized users only, instead of serving that content up to anyone who knows where it is located on the public internet.)
I don't think that's what they've actually tried to do here, so the issue is really moot. Thanks for clearing up what you meant for me, and have an upvote.
My bad. I follow VSCode closely and incorrectly assumed everyone had gone through the same BFS of the the repository as me.
And yes I don’t mind the URL being public as much as the means by which the legal justification was achineved. Reverse engineering is, in some jurisdictions, totally legal, and it wouldn’t be hard at all to simply look at the requests being made by the application. That I’d be fine with. This sort of underhand “got you!” Is what bothers me.
A license granted by accident without consideration in return is not a "no takebacks!" situation. If I paid for that license and then you said, it was granted by mistake, I may have a legal leg to stand on in terms of "no takebacks" claims. But if it's just a URL, I'm pretty sure I actually don't need any license or your permission to copy it.
(If you wanted the data that the URL serves up to be protected, then you should have implemented some kind of actual protection scheme, like a token auth system that restricts access to authorized users only, instead of serving that content up to anyone who knows where it is located on the public internet.)
I don't think that's what they've actually tried to do here, so the issue is really moot. Thanks for clearing up what you meant for me, and have an upvote.