Hi Jason. We were sent the same DMCA notice that is posted on GitHub's DMCA repo, which I linked to above.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:23 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Aaron, > > Can you share the email you are sent that says precisely what the copyright > violation is? > > Jason > moorepants.info > +01 530-601-9791 > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 4:57 AM Jeremy Monat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oh, good news on HackerNews: >> >>> Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, >>> here are the actions we are going to take: >>> >>> (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior >>> leadership in Github to act on this quickly. >>> >>> (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal >>> guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of >>> incidents don't happen. We are going to do this in-house >>> >>> (3) We are going to donate $25k to the sympy project. >>> >>> As a company we take a lot of pride in helping developers and it sucks to >>> see this. I'm extremely sorry for what happened here. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:54 PM Jeremy Monat <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hopefully this can get resolved soon! So is HackerRank's contention that >>> one of the examples on our solvers page was taken from their site, for >>> example one of their quizzes? >>> >>> Jeremy Monat >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:50 PM oliphant <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> By the way, because I get to work with Aaron, I was chatting about this >>>> with him. I saw the CEO post on Hacker News and I've reached out to him >>>> asking him to rescind the DMCA notice. This is likely the fastest way to >>>> get the site back up -- though it will still take a couple of days, I >>>> suspect. >>>> >>>> I also suggested he make a donation to NumFOCUS to sponsor SymPy >>>> development for the trouble his vendor caused this community. >>>> >>>> Thanks for all of you who continue to make SymPy a very useful project. >>>> >>>> -Travis >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4:48:54 PM UTC-5 Aaron Meurer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All. >>>>> >>>>> As some of you may have noticed, the SymPy documentation site is >>>>> currently down. This is due to a complaint that has been filed to >>>>> GitHub under the DMCA by HackerRank. You can read the complaint here >>>>> https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/5de8f80b171afdc3741c9ab9d4c32ea32c44e59c/2022/04/2022-04-15-hackerrank.md >>>>> >>>>> As a result of this complaint, GitHub has taken down our site. We are >>>>> looking into the claim and working on getting the site back up as soon >>>>> as possible. >>>>> >>>>> Aaron Meurer >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "sympy" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/d276c484-56c8-4f8d-b1a5-22fe15e04bb4n%40googlegroups.com. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAO00iLjLVg7oSs_HYYSx48GPO%2Btb-E11ufAG%3DF_1ZLbEhKuXkA%40mail.gmail.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AhxJqgwPcEmt2K9fDi8cB%2BHWHcBcVUN5LopAx3%2BC8WF-Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2BzykM6t6HR7ov%2BMk%2Bhu%2BsPgfE9_sRw9JEfP0uB_qdcPg%40mail.gmail.com.
