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.bar...@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 <rbr...@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 > >
