Bitcoin Developers Attempt To Kill Open Source Project, Sends DMCA To GitHub

http://solidcointalk.org/topic/510-bitcoin-developers-files-several-dmca-takedowns-against-solidcoin-over-misplaced-license-file/

by redegg • 15 years ago

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sp0rus• 15 years ago

Bitcoin is mainly continuing at this point only because of the large community behind it, as there wasn't much credibility to begin with. Doing things like this does nothing but take that community further from where it wants to be. It was an interesting concept, and still is, but that is all it will ever amount to if this continues.

igothacknews3• 15 years ago

I don't see how this helps the Bitcoin project at all, trying to shut down projects because a text file wasn't included? And with no prior contact before that? Seems like Bitcoin can't wait until SOPA is enacted to give them even more power against projects they don't like.

nullc2• 15 years ago

Where do you get no prior contact from?

The fact that SolidCoin had stripped the copyright notices from the fails and were fraudulently claiming to have rewritten everything (as part of their process of closing access to Solidcoin and putting it under a restrictive license) was a popular discussion subject on the AltChains forum and had come up multiple times.

They also apparently violate the Berkley DB license.

igothacknews3• 15 years ago

Did you read the link?

"On our side, we apologize for misplacing the MIT license that Bitcoin uses. A friendly reminder would all have been necessary."

They say a friendly reminder would have been enough, which implies they didn't get any notice except a DMCA take down. If SOPA was enabled right now they could have gone even further and got domain names confiscated for offenses as slight at this, a missing license.txt . It's inappropriate response from the Bitcoin developers.

jasonzemos• 15 years ago

This is a non-story posted by the people who infringed and ended up getting DMCA'ed. The mods are encouraged to downvote or delete this. Knife fights don't belong on HN.

Bitcoin Developers Attempt To Kill Open Source Project, Sends DMCA To GitHub

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