Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?
Rogério,
As a handful of us predicted youtube-dl has been reinstated on GitHub:
https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/
I would remove the problematic tests from your fork to avoid future issues.
Again, thank you for being a maintainer. I use youtube-dl regularly
and appreciate your work.
Let us know if you have any more questions or concerns.
Hayden Barnes
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 5:49 PM Hayden Barnes
<hayden.barnes@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Rogério,
>
> First, thank you for maintaining youtube-dl.
>
> Second, I get your concern, especially since one of your forks was listed.
>
> In general I think my advice would be to not do anything right now.
>
> There are grounds to challenge the takedown as DMCA overreach. [1] I
> think GitHub is going to support such a challenge. [2] So you will
> want to see how that plays out.
>
> It has been suggested there may be ways to avoid the alleged
> infringement by removing links and comments that could be seen as
> "promoting" copyright infringement, which may be something you should
> consider in the future.
>
> You could bring your own challenge for the removal of your fork, but I
> think the prudent move is to wait and see what upstream does, they
> likely have more resources going their way and a strategy, e.g.
> challenging, modifying code, etc.
>
> So my suggestion would be to wait and see for now.
>
> As a maintainer I would recommend against re-uploading "youtube-dl" to
> GitHub in any way since it was already the subject of one takedown, at
> least until there is more clarity on the situation. [3]
>
> But I do not see the need to remove anything else from GitHub, like
> "pkg-youtube-dl", or salsa at this time.
>
> Others should weigh in.
>
>
> Hayden Barnes
>
> 1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201023/19035045569/riaa-tosses-bogus-claim-github-to-get-video-downloading-software-removed.shtml
> 2: https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/
> 3: As a private citizen, I made my own fork of youtube-dl on GitHub in protest.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:18 PM Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:
> >
> > Dear people,
> >
> > As many of you may know, the RIAA issued a resquest for GitHub to take down
> > the youtube-dl repository.
> >
> > The tree had some fixes that were *not* in the latest release that I
> > uploaded a few days ago (I am the maintainer of youtube-dl in Debian, just
> > to make things clear).
> >
> > Since the tree was taken down (and, to boot, of the 18 forks listed in the
> > takedown request, mine was explicitly listed), I fear that me uploading the
> > lastest tree to GitHub is asking for trouble.
> >
> > Given this situation, can I upload a backup of youtube-dl to salsa under my
> > user account? I already maintain the packaging of youtube-dl in a different
> > repository that is both on GitHub and on salsa. Should I take it down from
> > salsa?
> >
> > If these are not the appropriate mailing lists to send this to, please point
> > me to better places. I was in a hurry and I decided to send this as soon as
> > I found out places that seemed suitable.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help and support,
> >
> > Rogério Brito.
> >
> > --
> > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
> > http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito
> > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
> >
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