WURFL Founders Fire Off DMCA Takedown Against Fork

Posted by Unknown on Monday January 9, 2012 @04:50AM from the we-didn't-mean-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ScientiaMobile, the company formed behind the open source library WURFL, an API used to do mobile device detection for web applications, has issued a DMCA takedown notice against the OpenDDR project on Github. ScientiaMobile claims that OpenDDR is 'ripping them off' by forking their database, which used to be licensed under a liberal license. Newer versions of the device database are licensed under restrictive licenses which do not allow any modification or redistribution."

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Not being ripped off at all... by MrWeelson · 2012-01-09 05:16 · Score: 5, Informative

From http://openddr.org/takedown.html, the original file had terms of use as below
Seems clear to me - as long as OpenDDR are making public any changes.
"All the information listed here has been collected by many different people from many different
countries. You are allowed to use WURFL in any of your applications, free or commercial. The only thing required is to make public any
modification to this file, following the original spirit and idea of the creators of this project."