Skypeopensource: Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown

Maybe should've used a different name.

Not even that, it looks like a binary of Skype was included in the repo according to the takedown notice.

Surely Skype's license doesn't disallow redistributing its unmodified binaries?

I can only see this relevant clause in the ToS, and the repo wasn't reselling:

>6.6 No Reselling. The Software and Products are for your individual use. You shall not resell or commercialise the Software and/or Products to any third party.

AstralStorm 8y ago ↗

The copyright prevents copying by default.

So if the license doesn't explicitly allow it, you cannot copy or otherwise redistribute. (excluding certain legal protections such as archival use)

[dead] coderdude 8y ago ↗

> Date:01 May 2012

Not today, outrage factory.

underyx 8y ago ↗

Note that the DMCA notice was sent over six years ago, on 2012-05-01.

Has the repository been taken down just now? Or is this all six year old news?

cyphax 8y ago ↗

Checked on archive.org, it goes back to 2013 and it was already taken down back then, so I dare guess it's been down since the date you mentioned. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609133414/https://github.co...

Skypeopensource: Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown (github.com)

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