In criminal cases. In civil suits someone always loses, so an average person cannot win more than 50% of cases.

If the licence is already open source then they can’t do shit. Unfortunately, they have other methods of discouraging programmers from working on the project, but ultimately open source will prevail.

It might be illegal in your country, but you can consider generating a person’s face (and details) and creating a fake ID photo using it to protect your identity.