Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
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Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#2This project was recently discussed on HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3899829
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#3Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#4So I guess they should rename it Skipe open source.
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#5Please note: this is not an attempt to clean-room reverse engineer Skype, or even to reverse engineer and create an open-source replacement. As shown with things like WINE, Microsoft does not (and probably cannot) take them down.
No, that's not what "Skype Open Source" project is. This is a confusingly misnamed attempt to attach code to patched copies of copyrighted official Skype clients.
Microsoft is not overreaching here; this is what anyone would expect with a lame project like this. I'd love if someone really created an open-source Skype client, but this is not a project to do that.
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#6This seems legitimate and they are well within their right to do this as the copyright holder.
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#7Please note: this is not an attempt to clean-room reverse engineer Skype, or even to reverse engineer and create an open-source replacement. As shown with things like WINE, Microsoft does not (and probably cannot) take them down. No, that's not what "Skype Open Source" project is. This is a confusingly misnamed attempt to attach code to patched copies of copyrighted official Skype clients. Microsoft is not overreachi…
Are (were) they distributing the patched binaries or just the tools to do it?
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#8Better link: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/db9b442f0ac68512d0ca83fe...
even better link:
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/db9b442f0ac68512d0ca83fe...
(rendered into human readable)
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#9Please note: this is not an attempt to clean-room reverse engineer Skype, or even to reverse engineer and create an open-source replacement. As shown with things like WINE, Microsoft does not (and probably cannot) take them down. No, that's not what "Skype Open Source" project is. This is a confusingly misnamed attempt to attach code to patched copies of copyrighted official Skype clients. Microsoft is not overreachi…
Are (were) they distributing the patched binaries or just the tools to do it?
It's hard to tell. The author is clearly not too fluent with English, so it's difficult to tell exactly what he's saying. It sounds like it's based on a decompiled and recompiled version of the core Skype kernel dlls and not a clean room implementation.
Re: Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
#10If I am not mistaken it's not the first time Skype send a DMCA to this project. But given where the autor lives, the DMCA does not apply so it doesn't go anywhere.