Yes. At least in my country. That's why I forked the repo and perhaps see if it is useful maybe I'll even commit something.

I think they will have a hard time tracking down me and then fight a legal battle overseas. If they were to send me a C&D letter I would simply not comply, answer or do anything. First they have to find my address though.

A lot of people already has forked it, the code is available in a ta, maybe even in the history. Because of the seemingly bad communication now it will never go down.