> Rebble does not claim to "own" your app, they only claim to have done a lot of work saving and patching abandoned apps and recreated a whole service for managing and distributing them, wrote new apps, published new apps along with the old, to support watch owners that Pebble abandoned.

Because they never had the right to redistribute it.

This is like YouTube shutting down and me offering a bunch of videos I download for free, claiming that setting up a portal was a lot of work so I get rights.

I’d get sued to high heaven and the only reason Rebble is getting away with it is that the watch face developers aren’t big outfits with lawyers.

Core doesn not have any rights to it. Pebble did, and Pebble threw it away.

Rebble honors copyright by taking anything down that a rightsholder says to.

That's all copyright grants, and they are doing it. If you own an app and don't want Rebble to redistribute it, they won't.

Core has no claim to anything.

This is CoreTube coming along years later "Hey I used to work for Youtube. Give me your copy of all those videos other people actaully made and own, that Youtube threw away years ago. Also give me your whole NewTube back end site you wrote from scratch because I want to make CoreTube now and I don't have my old Youtube stuff any more because I sold it."

Like holy fucking are you kidding me?