After the recent abuse of DMCA provisions to attack popular free software projects, the Software Freedom Conservancy has initiated a discussion on a pledge text whose adoption may reduce such issues. Some people here may be interested. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/30/dmca-pledge/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/ ---- DMCA Cooperation Pledge, Version NO-RELEASE-YET =============================================== We pledge that, regarding any and all alleged copyright infringement and/or alleged promulgation of circumvention techniques, by any software project that is licensed in good faith under an OSI-Approved License, that we will give notice to the project, and take no action of copyright enforcement or other legal action (including but not limited to DMCA takedown due to copyright infringement or DMCA §1201 violations), for at least 30 days from the date of notice of our concerns made to the project. ---- Federico -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Public Drafting Process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge Data: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:23:00 -0500 Mittente: (Bradley M. Kuhn) Public Drafting Process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge Today, we created a Git repository <https://k.sfconservancy.org/dmca-pledge> and a mailing list <https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca-pledge> to discuss drafting of a DMCA Cooperation Pledge — based on my proposal two weeks ago </blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/>.