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by dublinben 3938 days ago
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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tacone 3938 days ago
The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.
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striking 3938 days ago
Usually using the "fork" option suffices... these changed the original repo to remove GPL and such.
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tacone 3938 days ago
According to the notice, they were unchanged or mostly unchanged forks of the master.
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yuvipanda 3938 days ago
I presume one wouldn't strip copyright in those cases.
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tacone 3938 days ago
They didn't. The master repository did, they probably weren't aware of the issue.
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striking 3938 days ago
Thank goodness GitHub doesn't employ the YouTube 3-copyright-strike system. Otherwise there would actually be an issue with this.
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