This was locked when I first looked, so I'll paste the comment I gave in Discord:
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We'll be discussing complying simply to end the matter. It's tiring fielding such a variety of bad legal takes, from "you aren't allowed to use our code" (yeah, that was a talking point early on in Discord), to "you have committed multiple felonies for exercising a privilege granted to you in a GitHub org (transferring a repo)". It's further perplexing that all this effort to reign back control over a project is coming from people that couldn't have cared less about ZC for many years now. It seems "Armageddon Games" _as a group of developers_ doesn't even exist any more, even legally (as far as that ever mattered). Just odd that these people are more interested in roleplaying having a "game company" and running a open source project, and spitting wild legal takes rather than ... work on ZC.
This is the singular thing that Jarrod has asked of you for weeks. You abjectly refused to comply, and that is the reason this has gone to this direction. You are choosing career seppeku, rather than simply diverging and doing what you want to do. You own messages admit and attest that you had no right to do what you have done, and yet you still somehow feel justified in lying, stealing, and abusing property that you do not own.
Return it and this instantly ends. The very provisions of the license termination under which you face a permanent ban of developing, sharing, and using the ZC software, express that. I am also curious if your contracts with Google (and/or Meta) permit any of the actions you have taken, permit you to work on competing products, or if Google (&c) would have an issue with what you have done, or have been doing. I know that when I worked for various companies, I would have been fired on the spot, not only over this conspiracy, but merely for coding for an off-brand product.
In any event, if you return it, this will be over and AGN will likely just forget your actions. As to your comments about lack of AGN involvement over the last 2.5 years: Yes, all due to total lies and fabrications that I was 'fired by WarLord', an event that in reality, never transpired. I would have kept working, and would have had others working on the project in that duration, while Emily went off with a fork and did their own thing.
The fact here is that this is the second instance of someone taking over the project by force, and also forcing others to be unable to continue their work, perpetrated by the same person. In a bottom line statement, if I was never fired, then my decisions of the past stand, and none of you have any legitimate authority at all. You should be happy to get out of this without being sued or criminally investigated, as those are still on the table; as is ruining your career if needed. If you want your legacy to be one of piracy and theft over software with fewer than 200 active users, and truly want to die on that hill, so be it.
Okay, I have one more thing I've gotta say.
Nightmare. Sincerely consider what it is you are doing. You are willingly burning bridges with an entire community that you have built up goodwill over the last few years with that has been a massive struggle for you to do so before. Connor is not talking about you when he says that AGN does not exist. If anything, you are the only real remnant of AGN that seemingly has any real investment in ZC. Connor was speaking to the devs of ZC. The people you are batting for, and I mean this as bluntly as possible, do not care. If they win, ZC dies, plain and simple. If they'd like to prove me wrong, then sure, maybe some significant development will come of it, but dude, all of your work goes away if you continue to bat for these people who seemingly do not have your level of passion for this program.
I don't entirely think you grasp the reality of what is happening here. If you want basic math here, it's AGN vs PZC, and quite simply, PZC wins that race 10 to 0. It's not just about ownership of ZC. The active userbase of AGN itself if you exclude admins, mods, and devs is quite literally in the single digits. Emily, Deedee and Connor's dev server is more popular than that, and PZC even more so. This decision would not only ostracize pretty much the program's entire userbase, but you'd basically be willingly giving up hope of the community ever evolving again.
I do not want your contributions to die with you dying on the hill that "I have had more years of experience, therefore I'm better by default," because that is absolutely what they will do if you keep going this route. You'll just be forgotten, and I don't think anybody wants that to happen.
They can continue this work as before, if they return the repo to AGN, and fork it. Literally nothing impeded them from doing this properly, and legally; and when challenged they absolutely refused. This is the result of their hubris.