Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub
by mort96 on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:25AM
(#35480858)
That doesn't really change anything? Taking down a repository with no explanation is unacceptable regardless of context.
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub
by noirscape on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:33AM
(#35480931)
It does change things. Codeberg responded to orenom's request for explanation on the same day (see the archive link in the first source about people mentioning it was taken down) and further detailed it in the subsequent days. That's decent time to respond with an explanation if you don't have a formalized process to deal with this stuff (which given Codeberg is pretty small, seems likely).
Very few providers will shoulder the risk of being dragged to court to stand in front of you when legal is involved. Most don't have the funding to go the legal route to begin with, so they just comply. "We'll go to court for you" isn't a selling point of Codeberg, which makes it silly to expect it.
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub
by mort96 on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:48AM
(#35481048)
"Wikiless was an unmodified passthrough proxy, it ran afoul of trademarks and it was confusing people" doesn't change anything.
"Codeberg responded to orenom's request for explanation on the same day" does change things. You didn't include this in your previous comment from what I can see. Thanks for pointing it out.
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub
by throwawaaarrgh on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:32AM
(#35480914)
It sounds like there was an explanation?
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub
by forgotmypw17 on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:34PM
(#35489057)
I rely on Wikiless for making wikipedia accessible to me. It is not even about privacy, just being able to use the site without obstructions.
Codeberg did not respond to the developer for a week or two, iirc.
The whole project has been broken ever since.
On its own, not harmful. That being said, it ran afoul of the WMFs trademarks and was actively confusing people with regular Mediawiki, which is likely what prompted the takedown. You can read the ins and outs on Wikipedias own page about mirrors and forks, there's an explanation listed there[1].
Codeberg likely complied because if you're weighting a vaguely conspiratorial-minded (the developer of Wikiless is a "feds in the walls" type if it wasn't obvious from the previous paragraph) proxy tool against possibly being shut down since you decided to stand up for an easy trademark violation, the choice is easy.
[0]: I'd like to note that as far as I can tell, no such tooling exists on Wikipedia, nor does the WMF employ the usual culprit (ad networks) of that kind of nonsense.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/VW...