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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by DannyBee on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:33PM (#9192356)
Not really. Unlike a lot of other hosting services, Google code required you to pick an open source license for the project. Even if there are no headers on source, you have a good argument that they were proclaiming to the world it was licensed a certain way, ...

(now, third party code they may have included is a different issue, you can't get rights to that through someone else's claims, but ...)

Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by jamiesonbecker on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:44PM (#9195257)
Agreed. and that's what the DMCA was ostensibly intended for anyway. Someone who claims copyright could always make that claim in the normal fashion.