I did not intend to post more messages here before leaving, but a recent nonsense from Koying on Google+ force me to, as maybe some other persons believe this bullshit.
Koying Wrote:There is something vaguely ironic having +Tolriq explaining us how GPL works...
He has been asked several times for yatse to be the official Kodi remote in the past, that implying that he'd have to open-source it, and he always refused.
So, basically, he's one of the numerous leeches making money out of Kodi, which makes any speech of his regarding "community" rather comical, in a sense.
Do I have to mention how childish it is to "refuse" that one of his PR be merged due to personal fights?
Never forget, guys: some are doing Kodi for fun (us), some are doing it for the money...
The small version for peoples that hate long texts :
- "He has been asked several times for yatse to be the official Kodi remote in the past, that implying that he'd have to open-source it, and he always refused."
This is false, I was never ever asked by anyone from the team to make Yatse official Kodi remote, or to open source it.
- "he's one of the numerous leeches making money out of Kodi" / "some are doing Kodi for fun (us), some are doing it for the money... "
Again completely false, see below, but 100% of my work for Kodi is not about money it started before Yatse for Android and is user related, either allowing more things to be done by everyone or fixing bugs.
I'm here and contributing since way before Yatse for Android and have open sourced the Windows version of the application.
I do now make a little money from Yatse since users ask me how they can give money to me.
I did try to even contribute more when I started making money, but the full history about external contributors is public on this forum.
I did try to donate but there's no public record of Foundation money usage after 2013.
The long version :
I'm a user since XBMP on modded XBOX, when I discovered later that it was coming to Windows, I decided to move to the HTPC world.
I did choose a case with a touchscreen as I find the idea quite perfect, but there was no tool that fitted my need.
Since I learn things fast even if I'm not a dev, I decided to learn C# / WPF and start making an application : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=68936
Application that is free, without ads, now open source in GPL https://github.com/Tolriq/Yatse2 and continued as Front View+ by someone else : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=259087
So well seems after all I know GPL and open source 
During all that time I did try to contribute more than just a free app, I helped users to use JSON, helped defining the needs and more.
A few years later a friends showed me Android and an app he was doing, and I again find that perfect to fit my learning desires.
There was already an official Android remote but it was written by some wonderful code guru and overly complicated for someone that wanted to learn something.
You can't learn to drive on a ferrari, it was the same.
So I started Yatse for Android as a learning game http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=117885 (Was a simple widget at start), and as I always do, it was a free application without ads just to learn.
But as always users did love my work and asked me to add more and more things, and as it was always a challenge I did fill their needs, making Yatse what it is now, a user centric application. (And real RERO but that's another story)
At some point users asked me to make the application paid and I did answer their will, it was never the main point or objective.
Yatse is still fully featured without ads, paid features are 100% optional and not needed to fully remote control Kodi and much more.
A long time after when Yatse started to give me a little money, I did search how I can give back more to the community than just support and some coding.
I did try to donate but there's no public record of money of the Foundation after 2013.
So I tried to code more and to find a way to work correctly with the Team. This leads to a major problem that is still present : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=166398
Problem that can be resumed as there's no way to discuss Kodi code before making a PR that anyone can refuse, leading to tons of time lost on each parties.
And this is not really acceptable in a world where time is the only thing you can't buy or recover.
I still do PR some times to fix problems or add simple features that I hope will not generate hours of useless discussions, and as Montellese is no more available I did try to act as the guardian of JSON by trying to have his decisions applied since I have the full history since day 1 and a good memory.
Anyway I also made some PR like https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/9245 that close major security hole in Kodi.
This PR typically generated thousands of support and bad rating to Yatse and actually cost me money.
Quite the opposite of "some are doing for money."
So even if most won't read this, I hope this brings answers to those who may have doubts about my motivations since 7 years.
Because unlike those quite big lies, I'm one of the very few that did try to give back and contribute for making a little money.
PS : @Koying since you seems to ignore my answers to your message in G+, I inform you that the formal complaint is filled and validated by my lawyer and will be deposed tomorrow if you do not either prove your allegation or do public excuses.
For public defamation / calumny you risk in France 12 000€ at least and in Belgium : http://www.actualitesdroitbelge.be/subse...roit-penal
You should really read this link as since you loved to talked about GPL I will love to talk about real life law.
You can't say you are not warned.
PPS : I know that this message was posted by Koying and represent only his appreciation, but the content does represent more than just him.
Please avoid nonsense in this thread, this is what is called the right to answer to public defamation.