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GitHub Removes 'Chimera13' iOS Jailbreak After DMCA Notice from 'Unc0ver'

3 points by aspenmayer 6y ago

aspenmayer 6y ago
> The takedown request is interesting for several reasons. First of all, a team behind an application that is exempted from copyright infringement claims under the DMCA is using the same law to go after another jailbreak app. In addition, the claim itself isn’t without controversy either. > “The code for Chimera13 is original code that I have written in Swift that relies primarily on the public techniques,” Coolstar writes, pointing out the various pieces of open source and publicly available code that’s included. > “The only 3rd-party code in this repository is Jake James’ time_waste exploit. However, this is under an open source license (GPL),” he adds, highlighting the license in question. > According to Coolstar, the original notice was sent in bad faith. He further accuses the sender of committing perjury and abusing the DMCA process, a claim he repeats on Twitter.
devenblake 6y ago
Not too related but: What's with people misgendering CoolStar? Their pronouns are listed in their Twitter as they/them. Is this malintent, people thinking they/them cannot be used for a singular person, or just people not knowing?
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  I didn’t know this, but I’m not a jb dev, and I only loosely follow the reddit. I guess I have no excuse, but I honestly didn’t know until you said this. I apologize if I did misidentified them indirectly by quoting. I hope I have not upset CoolStar or anyone else.
  - devenblake 6y ago
    You're entirely without blame because you were only quoting. I just think TorrentFreak themselves should do a better job. Edit: It looks like the DMCA notice[1] itself misgendered CoolStar, so it probably is malintent that TF didn't pick up on. [1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6b964c150db5840bc9820ec08bb8b166109791dc https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6b964c150db5840bc9820e...

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GitHub Removes 'Chimera13' iOS Jailbreak After DMCA Notice from 'Unc0ver'

3 points by aspenmayer 6y ago

aspenmayer 6y ago
> The takedown request is interesting for several reasons. First of all, a team behind an application that is exempted from copyright infringement claims under the DMCA is using the same law to go after another jailbreak app. In addition, the claim itself isn’t without controversy either. > “The code for Chimera13 is original code that I have written in Swift that relies primarily on the public techniques,” Coolstar writes, pointing out the various pieces of open source and publicly available code that’s included. > “The only 3rd-party code in this repository is Jake James’ time_waste exploit. However, this is under an open source license (GPL),” he adds, highlighting the license in question. > According to Coolstar, the original notice was sent in bad faith. He further accuses the sender of committing perjury and abusing the DMCA process, a claim he repeats on Twitter.
devenblake 6y ago
Not too related but: What's with people misgendering CoolStar? Their pronouns are listed in their Twitter as they/them. Is this malintent, people thinking they/them cannot be used for a singular person, or just people not knowing?
- aspenmayer 6y ago
  I didn’t know this, but I’m not a jb dev, and I only loosely follow the reddit. I guess I have no excuse, but I honestly didn’t know until you said this. I apologize if I did misidentified them indirectly by quoting. I hope I have not upset CoolStar or anyone else.
  - devenblake 6y ago
    You're entirely without blame because you were only quoting. I just think TorrentFreak themselves should do a better job. Edit: It looks like the DMCA notice[1] itself misgendered CoolStar, so it probably is malintent that TF didn't pick up on. [1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6b964c150db5840bc9820ec08bb8b166109791dc https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6b964c150db5840bc9820e...