I'm guessing it is more likely that these repositories were searched for by staff/professors than fully specific code was searched for. I don't think you can claim that changing code absolves you of copyright issues, it…
I think it should have been easily provable that you owned the website and that your code matched, any sort of escalation beyond initial talking with professor should have resolved that. If not that is absolutely…
I'm guessing it is more likely that these repositories were searched for by staff/professors than fully specific code was searched for. I don't think you can claim that changing code absolves you of copyright issues, it…
I think it should have been easily provable that you owned the website and that your code matched, any sort of escalation beyond initial talking with professor should have resolved that. If not that is absolutely…