The author didn't at first didn't even notice the addon was taking a cut, let alone attempted to "cheat" it. That is clearly the author's "oops", but what are you getting on about "cheating?"
In the license, it clearly state that is perfectly acceptable to use the addon unlicensed, and if you go above a certain monetization level, it will take a cut. The explicitly calls out the cut as 2%. Except the license was a lie, it is not 2%, it's 30%. That is theft.
If the addon took 2%, as the license explicitly states, it would have been completely legal. It was not 2% and it is theft.
Is it really a good model for funding Open Source software to bake in clearly illegal landmines that steal from anybody using said OSS? If so, that feels way more like malware than OSS.
