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Re: DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by wiredfool »

orclev wrote: post #16
kernelcurry wrote: post #13

Have been using this repo for a long time now, and now deploys are broken :( going to have to re-write some code i guess...

Should probably use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-barcode or https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF both of which are mentioned in the DMCA notice.

And do a license review to see if the gplv3 license imposes any cconditions on the use of the code.

Re: DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by 525 »

orclev wrote: post #16
kernelcurry wrote: post #13

Have been using this repo for a long time now, and now deploys are broken :( going to have to re-write some code i guess...

Should probably use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-barcode or https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF both of which are mentioned in the DMCA notice.

Or not deploy from random repos you don't control.

Re: DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by Sanddancer »

kernelcurry wrote: post #13

Have been using this repo for a long time now, and now deploys are broken :( going to have to re-write some code i guess...

If you've been using the repo for a long time and you didn't have a local copy to use in case github went down, etc, your deploy was already broken. Having local mirrors of third party repos, and pulling those into your build system is fairly trivial, and will save a lot of heartache in cases like this.

Re: DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by ealexhudson »

wiredfool wrote: post #21
orclev wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should probably use https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-barcode or https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF both of which are mentioned in the DMCA notice.

And do a license review to see if the gplv3 license imposes any cconditions on the use of the code.

GPLv3 doesn't impose any conditions on use. This is LGPLv3, which has even fewer requirements.

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Post by striking »

tacone wrote: post #20
yuvipanda wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I presume one wouldn't strip copyright in those cases.

They didn't. The master repository did, they probably weren't aware of the issue.

Thank goodness GitHub doesn't employ the YouTube 3-copyright-strike system. Otherwise there would actually be an issue with this.

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Post by noir_lord »

Sanddancer wrote: post #23
kernelcurry wrote: post #13

Have been using this repo for a long time now, and now deploys are broken :( going to have to re-write some code i guess...

If you've been using the repo for a long time and you didn't have a local copy to use in case github went down, etc, your deploy was already broken. Having local mirrors of third party repos, and pulling those into your build system is fairly trivial, and will save a lot of heartache in cases like this.

Especially if you want to be sure that a version you pegged exactly for stability will be around in a year or two (looking at you node land).

Re: DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by aikah »

s1lver wrote: post #26

What crazyness is this? A DMCA we're not raging against??

well people here are infringing a GPL license by stripping it from the original code. I agree with that. All my projects on github are GPL so I'd do the exact same thing in the same circumstances.
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