It’s not uncommon to have a tap for a single app ( mpv, massren). I mean let's be honest what app would you put in your tap besides this one Anyone else can make the tap for it, though, we have no control over that. It’s not like it’d be that hard to find the real owner of the account, and by linking it to someone in the project, it could be even worse than including it directly. That’d be acting in bad faith - we’d be purposefully trying to find a loophole and exploiting it. Perhaps we create a new organization with a dummy user account and just have each repo be a separate app? Annoying in that you have to tap for each app but it should keep it decentralized. Point being, to fight this (hypothetical) fight, we’d likely have to do it on another platform.Īs pointed out, luckily we have a tap system, courtesy of homebrew, that lets us mitigate the whole issue without much effort. I do believe that if push came to shove, they’d throw us under the bus.
While it seems they claim they’ll make a “reasonable effort” to contact the infringer, and may remove only the relevant portions, they also reserve the right to nuke repos and user accounts (and that is mentioned before the other options). Having said that, these decisions should never be made in a vacuum, and I support position, for one simple reason - github’s DMCA takedown policy. Not including it due to the aforementioned reason sends a message that only strengthens their position, and I’m not ideologically comfortable with that. These companies (and individuals) abuse their power to steal from others when it’s convenient to them, with complete disregard for the work of others. On principle, I do mind not including the cask out of fear of retaliation. Since I believe levels of comfort on talking about this will vary, I’ll point out the opinions expressed in this comment are my own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of other homebrew-cask maintainers.
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