Ask HN: Microsoft copied this MIT-licensed package. Is it legal?

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  • If you take a look at the source of these two packages, they're obviously related. The exported API is the same, the comments are mostly the same, and if you take a look at the commit history of fluentui, it turns out that Microsoft was originally using Levi Thomason's keyboard-key package. The commit where they forked it is here:

    https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/pull/13264/files

    My question: is this kind of blatant copying and then reassigning of copyrights by megacorps legal? And if not, is there anything we can do it?

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