On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 17:07, tueidj traden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Google Code project named "SneekyCompiler" ( > http://code.google.com/p/sneekycompiler/) is hosting several files that I > believe violate the terms of use for one or more of the following reasons: > First of all, thanks for the report. For future reference (i.e., the archives), I'll detail why I'm taking this project down. All reasons given are reasonable cause for a takedown, but the first three claims need to go through a specific process to be actionable by us, and so were not a factor in this particular case. - The original owner of the files has not given permission for them to be > distributed > Are you the copyright owner? If so, you should file a DMCA notification at http://www.google.com/dmca.html . We can only act on copyright infringement claims that are reported in compliance with the DMCA. - They contain proprietary code belonging to Nintendo, Inc. > Do you represent Nintendo in an official capacity? If so, filing a DMCA notification is the way to go. The DMCA requires that notification be from the copyright owner or an authorized representative. - They exist for the sole purpose of exploiting a weakness in Nintendo's > servers to circumvent paying for additional game content > This may be covered by the DMCA (I'm not 100% sure, and in any case this is not legal advice). The copyright owner of the content should establish with their legal counsel whether this is the case, and if it is, file a DMCA notification. - No source code is provided for several programs despite the project being > labelled as using the GPLv2 license > This is a straight and simple violation of the Terms of Service of our project hosting platform. The project is indeed lacking source code for the distributed binaries, and what source code is there is merely a downloader for other closed source binaries hosted on Google Code. On that basis, I've taken the project down. Thanks again for the report! - Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
