by Rantenki on 9/11/15, 8:07 PM
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 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.
by 0x0 on 9/11/15, 7:43 PM
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?
by ascendantlogic on 9/11/15, 7:45 PM
Seems reasonable if they copied the code and stripped all attribution and licenses.
by s1lver on 9/11/15, 8:44 PM
What crazyness is this? A DMCA we're not raging against??
by phkahler on 9/11/15, 9:11 PM
Question. Is stripping the authors names OK? Obviously stripping the license isn't, but does the GPL require you to "advertise" all contributors? I thought that was considered a problem with one of the BSD variants.
by donatj on 9/11/15, 9:31 PM
Looking back through Github's DMCA history, Tecnick.com has sent a fair number of DMCA takedown notices in the last couple months. Looks like they're in crackdown mode.
by chuckreynolds on 9/11/15, 9:07 PM
used this in the past but nothing current. interesting to see but it does seem the DCMA request is valid considering what I've been reading about all the stripped gplv3 and other references to OP.
Now for somebody fork it from a recent pull and put in the required licensing and references as, from what I understand, this repo had nice improvements from the OP.
Just a matter of time now.
by oso2k on 9/12/15, 1:30 AM
It's a bit ironic that the original author's website's favicon looks a lot like a Microsoft Windows 95 icon.
by kernelcurry on 9/11/15, 8:09 PM
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...
by grymoire1 on 9/11/15, 8:45 PM
And they are down....
"This repository is currently disabled due to a DMCA takedown notice"
by cpeterso on 9/11/15, 9:50 PM
So who first deleted the license and copyright notices?