Read about the GPL license, I did not come up with what I said, it's all written there. It seems people don't understand that when writing amxx plugins they are writing open source software.
Basically, if you want your work to be private, then do not share it with anyone. But as soon as you gave the source to someone, then that person is free to modify and publish it/directly publish it, if they keep the original author name.
I'm not a lawyer, but this is my understanding of the license.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
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Why does the GPL permit users to publish their modified versions? (#WhyDoesTheGPLPermitUsersToPublishTheirModif iedVersions)
A crucial aspect of free software is that users are free to cooperate. It is absolutely essential to permit users who wish to help each other to share their bug fixes and improvements with other users.
Some have proposed alternatives to the GPL that require modified versions to go through the original author. As long as the original author keeps up with the need for maintenance, this may work well in practice, but if the author stops (more or less) to do something else or does not attend to all the users' needs, this scheme falls down. Aside from the practical problems, this scheme does not allow users to help each other.
Sometimes control over modified versions is proposed as a means of preventing confusion between various versions made by users. In our experience, this confusion is not a major problem. Many versions of Emacs have been made outside the GNU Project, but users can tell them apart. The GPL requires the maker of a version to place his or her name on it, to distinguish it from other versions and to protect the reputations of other maintainers.
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