The whole idea of laws in cryptospace as a whole is baffling when you consider how global it is. In Nigeria for example, we have zero laws in relation to blockchain and whatnot. We do have propriety laws and the likes but due to the ambiguous nature of cryptospace, I doubt there'll be any parallels.

So if you patent and protect your International software with US laws and indeed even aganist forking , what's stopping me from Forking anyways based on the laws of my society?