I have to admit: I don't know what FieldPapers is - but this seems a very heavy-handed action. What's wrong with the complainant just asking the font is removed from the source code repository? Why remove the whole source code?
-----"Joseph R. Justice" <jayare...@gmail.com> wrote: ----- To: OSM Talk ML <talk@openstreetmap.org>, OSM Talk-US List <talk...@openstreetmap.org> From: "Joseph R. Justice" <jayare...@gmail.com> Date: 29/08/2014 03:10AM Cc: Stamen Design <i...@stamen.com> Subject: [OSM-talk] Field Papers web app source code hosted at GitHub currently subject to DMCA takedown and not accessible [Intentionally posted to both talk@ and talk-us@. -- J] I just now happened to try to access my personal fork of the repository for the source code for the Field Papers (http://fieldpapers.org/) web app site (said repository of source code can usually be found at https://github.com/stamen/fieldpapers), only to find that the fork was currently not accessible due to a DMCA takedown, apparently related to the presence of font data originally created by Monotype Corporation and/or related companies and organizations. Because of this DMCA takedown, the master repository of the source for Field Papers, my personal fork of it, and the repository for the source of the software Field Papers was derived from are all currently inaccessible at GitHub. (Many other things unrelated to Field Papers or OSM in general are also being affected by this.) Information about the DMCA takedown and what is affected by it, and what the takedown is complaining about, can be found at https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-08-27-Monotype-Imaging.md . Does Stamen Design (as the organization responsible for creating and presumably maintaining the Field Papers web app at http://fieldpapers.org/ and the software behind the web app) know about this yet? Are they doing something about it? I wouldn't be surprised if the DMCA takedown is extended to the web app site itself at some point, if something isn't done about this. I have taken the liberty of CCing Stamen Design at i...@stamen.com with this letter, to make sure they are aware of what's going on (especially if they are not yet aware of it). Thank you for giving me a moment of your time. I hope you find this of some use, interest. I look forward to learning more about this situation as it develops and is (hopefully) resolved in a desirable fashion in the near future. Joseph PS: I still cannot access my own attempt at an account at the Field Papers web app site, but that's not relevant to the issue here. If I ever get off my lazy butt and write some patches to their code for the site to fix this sort of thing (which is why I'd created a fork in the first place), then I'd be able to get at my account w/o needing them to do something. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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