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Let me guess, it was an iPhone? Someone just used AirDrop and you might’ve allowed everyone sending you files.

Thinking back to my school days 15 students in a class was okay. I think I’d prefer that instead of 30 students and two teachers.

Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.

However, the company’s gross profits dropped as operating expenses climbed far quicker than revenue, in large part thanks to AI-related capital expenses and other research and development

How can I prove that I have ownership over code I wrote myself, and that it isn’t copyrighted somewhere in the world?

As long as you had no access to that code and have some proof of that then that should be quite easy. I.e. you never worked for a company that claims copyright on something you wrote.

Developers also “generate” code and are also “trained” on code they written as freelancers or employees for others which is potentially copyrighted.

Then you need to do a proper clean-room rewrite with people who had provably no access to the original code.