Why would it be illegal? A cease and desist is just a fancy letter saying do what we want or else we'll go crying to a judge. If the original dev hasn't done anything wrong (I'm not familiar with the project but I'd still say that's highly likely to be the case) then there's nothing to worry about. So make all the clones you want, and watch a dumbass company Streisand itself
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Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 10 months agoThat would be illegal, and you should absolutely not do that. Just like you shouldn’t clone the invidious repos just in case (/s)
mrbubblesort@kbin.social 10 months ago
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes i know, it is why I am telling you NOT to do it. Nope. Don’t do it. At all.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 months ago
If I were the dev, I’d want to either comply or get a lawyer, and getting a lawyer is expensive.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I haven’t seen any notice, sounds legal to me.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It wouldn’t be illegal if you hosted it in a country where there is no law against such a thing, and/or Haier does not have any presence which would grant them legal standing. Is anyone running a server farm in Sealand yet?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It may or may not be illegal, they’re just throwing their weight around under the suggestion that it’s illegal. Knowing well that a single dev working on a plugin in their freetime isn’t likely to want to invest in legal proceedings.
Which is even more reason to do the above, to stick it to them.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 months ago
Streisand Effect this bitch.
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
yeah. just because they say so doesn’t mean that it’s actually illegal. they all always like to throw those legal threats anywhere they see fit.