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You seem to have missed the part where the files in question come from winapp2.com, not Piriform. The fact that the same files can be imported by CCleaner or BitBleach in no way gives either Piriform or the authors of BitBleach power over the other. That's like saying that because both LibreOffice and MS Word can open a document downloaded from Joe Blow's web site, LibreOffice is doing something against Microsoft. Not even Microsoft has made such a ludicrous claim.

Winapp2.com is the official website of Winapp2.ini, an addon for CCleaner, System Ninja, and BleachBit that adds support for over one thousand additional programs.

http://winapp2.com/

It doesn't come from CCleaner, CCleaner merely supports it as well. They may have even come up with the format (I don't know), but the file was created by the community not Piriform.

When I read the site http://www.winapp2.com/, it seems that you have nothing to be afraid of (Winapp2.ini is described as an addon for CCleaner, System Ninja, and BleachBit that is not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform). IANAL, but my 2p advice is to keep preciously a copy of the actual content of this site.

winapp2.ini is not property of Piriform. It is a separate project by other people and even notes the compatibility with BleachBit as a feature. Piriform is just being a bunch of assholes. Fuck them.

If the OP is advocating that the user download some other company's cleaner program so that your cleaner program can read its definitions to more effectively clean things up, that seems like a bit of a jerk move, even if it is 100% legal (compare to taking a GPL project and simply rebranding it with your own logos and rereleasing it).

However, Winapp2.ini seems to be completely separate from Piriform and CCleaner, as pointed out. Simply remove all references to Piriform and CCleaner from your site (Are you SEO-mooching off their name?) and point out that BleachBit can use Winapp2.ini, just like the Winapp2.ini site states. As far as I can tell, there's no need to mention the other company or product on your site at all, so just remove them. Piriform will have much less to stand on if both products simply have the ability to read in some third party definition file, and your product has nothing at all to do with CCleaner.

winapp2.ini is not property of Piriform. It is a separate project by other people and even notes the compatibility with BleachBit as a feature. Piriform is just being a bunch of assholes. Fuck them.

http://www.winapp2.com/ "This website and its files are not endorsed or supported in any way by Piriform. They take no responsibility for any damages or problems that arise from its use.",

Looks like Piriform has sent similar messages to them.