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Instead of a takedown request, it would probably have made more sense to ask those projects to add the required license information.
If the complaint is to be believed, most of these weren't really 'projects' but just copies of the original source code.
Imagine that you're working on some project and you find one of those forks with no GPLv3 attached (or worse, some other license that is more permissive). You integrate it, publish, and then find out that your project is in copyright violation.
I'd rather see a takedown induce an easily remediated repo change, than a big legal PITA down the road. It's not like he took his repo down, nor any of the forks that kept the license. He just DMCA'd the ones that stripped the license files.
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Instead of a takedown request, it would probably have made more sense to ask those projects to add the required license information.
That was an option that he gave (towards the bottom). I have no idea if GH passes these on to the repo owner or not. GH may have just removed the repos. But, the original author did give that option.
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If the complaint is to be believed, most of these weren't really 'projects' but just copies of the original source code.
The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.
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...
Strangely, I agree with the original author who sent the DMCA. Imagine that you're working on some project and you find one of those forks with no GPLv3 attached (or worse, some other license that is more permissive). You integrate it, publish, and then find out that your project is in copyright violation. I'd rather see a takedown induce an easily remediated repo change, than a big legal PITA down the road. It's not…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the complaint is to be believed, most of these weren't really 'projects' but just copies of the original source code.
The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.
Usually using the "fork" option suffices... these changed the original repo to remove GPL and such.