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DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed

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Post by kernelcurry » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

DMCA Takedown – Popular PHP Barcode Removed
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#2

Post by 0x0 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC

So... is the TL;DR that a GPL3 project on github is DMCA'ing a bunch of github forks that stripped the copyright/authorship notices?

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Post by markbnj » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

0x0 wrote: post #2

So... is the TL;DR that a GPL3 project on github is DMCA'ing a bunch of github forks that stripped the copyright/authorship notices?

That's what I get from it.

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Post by ascendantlogic » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:45 PM UTC

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

ascendantlogic wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

Instead of a takedown request, it would probably have made more sense to ask those projects to add the required license information.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

ascendantlogic wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

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Post by dublinben » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:48 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #5

ascendantlogic wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

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.

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Post by dubcanada » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:50 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #5

ascendantlogic wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

Instead of a takedown request, it would probably have made more sense to ask those projects to add the required license information.

What if he did? You have no idea if he did or didn't, you can't assume that the first action he took was to send a DCMA notice.

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Post by dlanouette » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #5

ascendantlogic wrote: post #4

Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.

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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Post by sp332 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #8

sp332 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of a takedown request, it would probably have made more sense to ask those projects to add the required license information.

What if he did? You have no idea if he did or didn't, you can't assume that the first action he took was to send a DCMA notice.

The second option under "remedy the infringement" is to add the license back to the projects, but a DMCA request is not the right way to ask for that.