(Florian Kolb (known as github.com/corgisolutions, t.me/florcorgi) Authorized representative of the Recipients named below
corgi@aster.cx
King.sells (694885449059008614), theuselesscreator (1189666481278025860), drifted._. (1403117349699059732), tagdoesnothing (972926959971627049), playfab.dll (1058128533089689721); operators of iistupid.com and github.com/iireborn.
25th September, 2026
By email to admin@goldentrophy.software and published at https://github.com/iireborn/transparency/
To: Grayson (crimsoncauldron), Administrator, Goldentrophy Software
Re: Response to your notices dated 25 September 2026, “Notice of GNU GPL v3 Violation” and “Cease and Desist”
1. Capacity.
I am Florian Kolb (known as github.com/corgisolutions, t.me/florcorgi. I write as authorized representative of the operators of iistupid.com and github.com/iireborn (the “Recipients”), who have authorized this response. Both of your notices and this reply are published at the address above, and further correspondence may go to corgi@aster.cx. One letter answers both notices, since you sent both the same day to the same people about the same matter.
2. The GPL notice.
2.1 Conveyance (§§4 and 6).
ii Engine is an original work of the Recipients and contains no code from ii’s Stupid Menu. It fetches the menu at runtime from a backend the Recipients operate, and the product page states this plainly. Execution of a program carries no conditions under the license. Section 2 affirms “your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program”.
The menu is conveyed when the backend serves it. The Corresponding Source for the menu is public at github.com/iireborn/menu, in a repository that carries the full GPL v3 text in LICENSE and a copyright and license notice crediting Goldentrophy Software at the top of each source file. Your own notice concedes those notices are present. Section 6(d) expressly permits conveying object code from a network server with the Corresponding Source on a different server, at no further charge. A separate program that interacts with a covered work at runtime without incorporating any of it is not itself a covered work. Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F.2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992).
Your demand that GPL text be embedded “within the main exe and installer” of ii Engine exceeds the license. Section 4 requires that recipients of the covered work receive a copy of the license, and recipients of the menu receive it. Recipients of ii Engine receive a product containing no covered code.
2.1.1 Runtime menu source (amendment 26/09/26)
It has been confirmed to me via text, and via a direct source reference, that ii Engine fetches the menu at runtime directly from GitHub, the Releases page of iireborn/menu. There is therefore no extra source code to be bounded by GPL.
2.2 Modification notices (§5(a)).
The repository now states, in the README, in a short notice at the top of each source file, and in the NOTICE file at the root, that the work is a derivative of ii’s Stupid Menu, the original work of Goldentrophy Software, and the commit history supplies the relevant dates. Section 5(a) requires “prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date”. Section 5(b) states that for modified versions this requirement “modifies the requirement in section 4 to ‘keep intact all notices’”, and the FSF’s guidance on license placement states that a clear statement in the README “is legally sufficient as long as that accompanies the code”.
2.3 The tracker.
Your notice states: “Unless confirmation can be made that the backend code is completely different and does not reference iidk.online-legacy, this violates the license”.
ii Tracker’s backend is the original work of the Recipients. It contains no code of yours, no derivative of any of your code, and no reference to iidk.online-legacy. That confirmation is now in writing, as your notice invited.
On the quoted sentence, it conditions a violation on the absence of a denial. A copyright claimant must prove ownership of a valid copyright and copying of protected material. 17 U.S.C. §501. Copying is proven through access and probative similarity. Arnstein v. Porter, 154 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1946). Your notice identifies no file, no function and no line of code, cites no registration, and your cease and desist, sent the same day, makes no claim about the tracker’s code and concerns itself only with its name. If the code allegation is maintained, identify the material and supply a registration number, since 17 U.S.C. §411(a) bars any infringement action before registration. Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC, 139 S. Ct. 881 (2019).
2.4 The deadline.
Your notice invokes §8, asserts termination, and demands cure by 30/9/2026. The notice is dated 25/09/2026, which is five days. Section 8, the provision you invoked, provides reinstatement where the licensee cures “prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice”. The matters in 2.1 and 2.2 are in place, this is the first notice of violation you have sent, and §2 grants rights that are “irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met”.
2.5 Charging.
Neither of your notices claims that selling is unlawful, so the point gets one paragraph. Section 4: “You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey”. Asked whether the GPL permits selling copies for money, the FSF’s FAQ answers: “Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this”. Selling ii Engine, which contains no code of yours, and selling access to a compliant conveyance of the menu are both within the license.
3. The cease and desist.
3.1 Artwork.
The artwork listed in your notice has been replaced with original artwork, without admission that the previous images were protectable, that they were yours, or that any use was infringing.
3.2 The Goldentrophy Software name.
Demand 4 permits use of that name “except for the copyright and license notices the GPL requires you to keep in ii’s Stupid Menu code”. That is the whole of the Recipients’ use. The name appears in the license notices of the derivative work and nowhere else. Demand 4 was satisfied before it was made.
3.3 The domain.
Demand 2, transfer of iistupid.com and a ban on similar registrations, is refused. Under Paragraph 4(a) of the UDRP you would need to prove that the domain is identical or confusingly similar to a mark in which you have rights, that the Recipients have no rights or legitimate interests in it, and that it was registered and is being used in bad faith. The domain hosts distribution of software you licensed to the public under the GPL, which is a bona fide offering of goods under Paragraph 4(c)(i). There has been no offer to sell you the domain, no pattern of registrations blocking you, and no disruption of your business.
3.4 The “ii” names.
Demand 1 is refused. You claim no registration and allege no instance of actual confusion. Under 15 U.S.C. §1125(a) you would need to prove a protectable mark, use in commerce as a source identifier, and likelihood of confusion. A two-letter fragment of a Discord handle and a phrase that names what the product is sit at the weak end of that test.
The Recipients’ materials state plainly that ii Reborn is a community continuation of ii’s Stupid Menu, a derivative work of yours, and that ii Engine loads the open-source menu. Identifying the upstream work of a fork by its name is nominative use. New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, Inc., 971 F.2d 302 (9th Cir. 1992). The Recipients’ products carry their own names, their own artwork, and their own code.
Your notice objects to branding “as ‘ii’s Stupid Menu Continued’ or similar”. No Recipient material uses that phrase. If you have seen it somewhere, say where.
3.5 The server.
You sold a Discord server on 13 August 2026 for $475. The transaction conveyed a server. The code is governed by the GPL, which requires nothing further from you and which §2 makes irrevocable. The names are addressed in 3.4. Any messages exchanged in September do not amend the license.
3.6 Your GPL acknowledgment.
Your cease and desist states: “Nothing in this letter limits your rights under the GPL to modify and distribute ii’s Stupid Menu under a different name, provided you comply with the GPL”.
The Recipients comply. On the terms of your own letter, their modification and distribution of the menu is within their GPL rights, and both of your notices reduce to the name demand, refused in 3.4, the domain demand, refused in 3.3, and artwork that has been replaced in 3.1.
4. On the threatened takedowns.
A takedown against the repository or the menu would represent as infringing a distribution whose legality you conceded in the sentence quoted in 3.6. A takedown against ii Tracker would represent as infringing code that your own second notice stopped claiming. 17 U.S.C. §512(f) makes a knowing material misrepresentation in a takedown notice actionable for damages, costs and attorneys’ fees. Rossi v. Motion Picture Association of America, 391 F.3d 1000 (9th Cir. 2004). Counter-notices would follow, and the full correspondence is published.
5. Close.
The GPL matters are recorded in 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4. The tracker denial is in 2.3, in the form your notice requested. The artwork is replaced. The name and domain demands are refused. Anything specific will be answered.
Nothing in this letter waives any right or remedy of the Recipients, all of which are expressly reserved.
Florian Kolb (corgisolutions), Authorized representative for the Recipients.
6. Authorization.
The Recipients’ authorization of this response is recorded below. Each Recipient and each contributor appends the statement below, completed with their own details, in a commit made under their own GitHub account.
I, [full name, or, privacy-respecting, any alias] (GitHub: [username], Discord: [handle, if any]), confirm that:
1. I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from
Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor
to github.com/iireborn.
2. I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at
transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
3. I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
4. I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that
response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software,
and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats
(hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 25th September, 2026
Commit message: transparency: authorization.
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I, TheUselessCreator (GitHub: TheUselessCreator, Discord: theuselesscreator), confirm that:
I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor to github.com/iireborn.
I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software, and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats (hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 25th September, 2026
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I, Juan Searn Leoson (GitHub: tagdoesnothing, Discord: tagdoesnothing(972926959971627049)), confirm that:
I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor to github.com/iireborn.
I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software, and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats (hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 26th September, 2026
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I, Drifted (GitHub: iiDrifted, Discord: Drifted._.), confirm that:
I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor to github.com/iireborn.
I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software, and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats (hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 25th September, 2026
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I, KingSells (GitHub: TheKing13245, Discord: King.Sells), confirm that:
I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor to github.com/iireborn.
I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software, and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats (hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 25th September, 2026
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I, Notlucy / !Lucy (noob1233ii) confirm that:
I am a Recipient of the notices dated 25 September 2026 from Goldentrophy Software and an operator of iistupid.com / a contributor to github.com/iireborn.
I have read the response dated 25th September, 2026 published at transparency/25_09_26_grayson/response_corgi_001.md, in full.
I agree with that response in full and object to no part of it.
I authorize Florian Kolb (corgisolutions) to send that response on my behalf, and to correspond with Goldentrophy Software, and with any provider it approaches in connection with its threats (hosting, domain, payment processors), on my behalf in this matter.
Dated: 26th September, 2026
[signatures sufficient (6/6), date above corrected to 26th as absolute truth)
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