If we stick by what you say, the maintainer may be uninitiated by copycat culture. Forking is a form of it, but so is shameless copying. If a person perceives theft, then they may respond in all kinds of abhorrent ways. Of course, we onlookers will yell out that it’s not that big of a deal in this case, but we can do nothing about the individuals perception.
Is this the person’s first time having an idea of theirs taken (appropriately or inappropriately)? Their sense of right and wrong may be just fine (speaking of value systems), but their reaction is intense.
There’s either more to the story or baby just experienced a little bit of life, and it hurts.
Edit:
From the maintainers:
Today we found Sublime Text authors just stole the WHOLE repository publishing the theme again, under their name, by replacing ANY reference of original authors with their names.
We opened a pull-request to restore the original theme made by us with all the credits. Let's see if they accept it, or they want to keep the stolen repository.
As I suspected Watson, the persons perceives theft.
Is this the person’s first time having an idea of theirs taken (appropriately or inappropriately)? Their sense of right and wrong may be just fine (speaking of value systems), but their reaction is intense.
There’s either more to the story or baby just experienced a little bit of life, and it hurts.
Edit:
From the maintainers:
Today we found Sublime Text authors just stole the WHOLE repository publishing the theme again, under their name, by replacing ANY reference of original authors with their names.
We opened a pull-request to restore the original theme made by us with all the credits. Let's see if they accept it, or they want to keep the stolen repository.
As I suspected Watson, the persons perceives theft.