Shopline and its parent company JOYY have settled a copyright lawsuit filed by Shopify, Reuters reports. The suit accused Shopling of copying its software to build a competing product. “Shopline
copied our Dawn theme, rebranded it, and sold it against us,” said Shopify general counsel Jean Niehaus in a statement. “We took them to court and they’ve been ordered to stop and to pay us. Open
source is built on trust and we’ll defend that every time someone treats it as a free pass to steal.”