The minimap author, committing those changes after being hired by them, labelled them "Implement Kite Promotion".

The question remains, would he have accepted the purchase/job if he had known that Kite intended to do this? My point is that he probably didn't know until instructed to do so my his new bosses.

At which point he did it and is equally responsible as if he knew beforehand.

Beautiful use of "iff" in a sentence! ("iff" = "if and only if" for those wondering).

Contrarily, I would be surprised if the devs sold their code without asking, “why do you want it?”