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Legality of project / where to document this

Open R030t1 opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Hello all, not everyone may be aware but py-kms was DMCA takedown'd and then reversed. I think it is important to document the decision as to why. I am unfortunately unable to find the previous issue addressing this or the rationale for reinstating py-kms.

Where is the best place to make note of this? youtube-dl should be covered by similar logic but is not having much luck, so I think it is fair to worry about this project again.

py-kms does break copy protection, but the DMCA explicitly allows breaking copy protection when you are licensed to use the work.

R030t1 avatar Nov 13 '20 16:11 R030t1

Where is the best place to make note of this?

I guess the wiki/docs is the best place for this. Maybe a new section for DMCA/Legality of this project? And in there listing all claims (similar to the change log list)? Maybe you could prepare a PR for this, as I have currently too little time :sweat_smile:

simonmicro avatar Nov 15 '20 15:11 simonmicro