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Hello,
I usually do not answer questions on forums. I am not a coder just an retired investigator and the frustration I get when people think that the law works in the normal scope of your daily lives. When, in fact the law is in its own world.
What you think is not debatable in the laws eye's its debatable. I understand your frustration as "its mine and it all mine". However, the law is all about the shades of grey.
A letter stating Cease and Desist is just words if you do not provide any foundation for that issue.
There are a couple of questions you need to ask yourself, so you do not have bad days.
1. Who has most to lose?
2. Who has the most to gain?
3. Who can sustain legal conflict?
4. Who is within the law.
You made a few comments that in my world I would address if I was interviewing you, if you can answer them honestly then it may help you in your quest.
1. If not work for hire, was work done on a volunteer assignment.
2. Do you work and get paid for your services as a employee or a independent contractor?
3. Did you use or copy code from others sources or app services to combine code for the app?
4. What is your legal basis for claiming rights to your code?
5. Does your coding violate any other patient rights or trademarks?
6. Have you filed any Copyright claims to your code?
You get the idea and the reason I am stating this, if they decide in a legal battle you will have a deposition and many more questions will be asked.
Like I said I understand your frustration but, you also have to understand that unless your willing to loose allot of hair at night rethink your goal.
If, not I would recommend an Attorney to write a letter and here is the reason. They will pass your letter on to there legal department if they have one. They will notice that a novice wrote it without any legal foundation you will be round filed. They also know you have no funds to fight in legal environment and guess what they may file against you.
Highly recommend take the few hundred bucks and spend it on a attorney to write the letter, they will include any legal foundation for you.
So, good luck and I hope this at least allows some clarity for you to think about.
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I agree with those who say you should see a lawyer who specializes in Intellectual Property but they are very expensive.
A great source of boilerplate legal documents (and great lawyer jokes) is www.Nolo.com[^]
Murray
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My attorney would like the name and address of your client 
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Don't be obnoxious.
Send them a registered letter reminding them of their legal obligations and your legal rights (assuming you have any).
Maybe they are not even using your software. If they are, or continue to do so after you have informed them, then you can get in their face.
And unsupported software typically has a very short life.
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A person who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a client.
That you are so convinced that this issue is not debatable illustrates that point exactly. EVERYTHING in law is debatable. That is the very premise behind modern law. A lesson you will soon be learning, methinks....
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Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
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Only in that one down the Kings Road...
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There's a Kings Road in Queens[^] ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Can you buy sell an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
Sure you can 
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Yes, of course, you just need many promotions.
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Still miss the King. But then King-less chess sounds like a thing. 
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Yes: there is a Queen, we don't need a King.
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Nah, they always rook ya...
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Interesting, I will ponder on this for the allowed time control, before being required to answer. Upon answering, I will stop the clock.
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Yes, but you will get rooked.
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Yes, but only at knight.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Shoot you beat me to the punch (line)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Only if you bend the rules ...
I´ll get my coat
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Check
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You call that an opening?
/ravi
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Sure in case of patt
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Your thoughts of the day are getting stale, mate
My blog[ ^]
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I'll have to check, mate.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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