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The person who holds the copyright doesn't own the storage for the repo. They agreed to a terms of service, which they almost certainly violated by pushing mali
by bastawhiz 5y ago
The person who holds the copyright doesn't own the storage for the repo. They agreed to a terms of service, which they almost certainly violated by pushing malicious code. Microsoft undid a change; that's not even derivative, it's literally the same code that the author published. To claim that Microsoft can't remove content from GitHub is wild.
- GeekyBear 5y agoWhile I agree that Microsoft has every right to deny service to the developer, ban their account and remove all of their repos, that doesn't mean that Microsoft has the right to forcibly seize the developers IP.
- bastawhiz 5y agoWhat action here constitutes the seizure of IP? The code was licensed under MIT. The developer is free to host it elsewhere and Microsoft retains no rights other than the ones explicitly granted to them.