Here's my two cents, this is something that has been bugged the open source community for too long, long before crypto.

Scammers gonna scam but think of it from a bigger perspective, when some useful tools forms out of open source, it performs as a universal building block and as a foundation for bigger and better things being built on top of it in future. That's how the future is built.

There's gonna be bad actors. In well known and pioneer open source communities, there's are many high profile "scammers". Many big open source projects hate the fact that AWS takes their years of work and copy paste it and sell it to enterprises as a service for millions of dollars. There's no solution for it.

However having this kind of freedom for everyone is what makes the world better and works for the small guys not just big corporations. Think nodejs, an excellent examples of how open source collaborations built made it one of the most used languages, arguably the most useful tools of past decades. And countless devs starting open source for fun and going to be very successful acting as building block of the ecosystem.


Crypto is still very immature and the tools we all use have a lot of development to go, there's gonna be scams around it and the only way to combat it is to spread awareness. Restricting or close sourcing the truth is not gonna work and is a counter measure in the progress of the ecosystems as a whole