I'm that person, but that's not exactly what I did.
Wahoo, a framework I had built, became the base for the then, new Oh My Fish.
I, myself, committed[1] it into the Oh My Fish repository, effectively replacing everything but the name. This was a huge change.
Regrettably, I didn't include a migration strategy, and ended up breaking other things down the line because of that. This and poor communication on my part, eventually led to a fallout with the other maintainer and I exited the project. So, I asked them to revert my changes or provide full attribution.
Reverting my changes would've made no sense at that point, and I realize that.
Attribution was left as "Copyright (c) 2015, Oh My Fish!". That didn't do it for me. My name was not anywhere. Ironically, my name is now almost everywhere Oh My Fish is brought up.
Filling a DMCA notice was my careless reaction to the situation. I know that I could've handled it better. I wasn't at my best.
1. You contributed code to the project that broke a lot of stuff
2. You tried to "take back" the contribution - this is really rich, as you already gave the code away as is without attribution according to the repo license.
3. Your ego just couldn't accept not being mentioned, so you thought attempting to kill OMF was a good idea. Your fame and glory was important enough to try to kill a popular open source project.
It's not that you could have handled it better, you behaved with ego and toxicity every step of the way.
1. From a technical standpoint, it just meant swapping Oh My Fish for Wahoo and changing the name. But my complete lack of planning led to numerous issues that escalated to falling out with the team. I was new to FOSS, immature and reckless.
2. Absolutely. You can't take back gifts that you gave away in the first place. I could've looked for another way, but sadly, I didn't.
3. True. I felt slighted, and used that feeling to justify myself, but in hindsight, I was only being selfish.
Wahoo, a framework I had built, became the base for the then, new Oh My Fish.
I, myself, committed[1] it into the Oh My Fish repository, effectively replacing everything but the name. This was a huge change.
Regrettably, I didn't include a migration strategy, and ended up breaking other things down the line because of that. This and poor communication on my part, eventually led to a fallout with the other maintainer and I exited the project. So, I asked them to revert my changes or provide full attribution.
Reverting my changes would've made no sense at that point, and I realize that.
Attribution was left as "Copyright (c) 2015, Oh My Fish!". That didn't do it for me. My name was not anywhere. Ironically, my name is now almost everywhere Oh My Fish is brought up.
Filling a DMCA notice was my careless reaction to the situation. I know that I could've handled it better. I wasn't at my best.
[1] https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/commit/2693a2fd18bd...