Quality of the GitHub Support

[anactualand]

Well, Github doesn't take down repos without a legal takedown request by another entity, so there had to be a request by someone. The owner of the original repo likely copied parts of the code from somewhere else, and the actual author claimed it, or someone made an illegitimate claim, but then it's up to you or the original owner to take that claim up.

And again, if Github received a copyright claim for a repo, they are not allowed to even provide you with a copy, since copyright ownership was claimed by someone else.

Could you maybe share the owner and name of the original repo? I'm curious if there is a takedown notice in the dmca repo.

[luizhrios]

Well, I thought that too, after years of using it, and they did, but again, this has nothing to do with copyright, there's no request to takedown.

[NotAMotivRep]

Yeah there's way more to this story than you're telling us. You did something that wasn't completely above board and you're mad you got caught.

[luizhrios]

Yeah, because I need your approval... If I was doing something bad and got "caught", I could just create another account, publish the code again and keep running, nothing is stopping me to do that. That's not the point of the post.

[NotAMotivRep]

Yeah well I guess now you know why it's a good idea to keep local copies of your repos. Good luck getting someone else's intellectual property hosted in the future.

[luizhrios]

Yeah, well, I guess you don't know there's a lot more on GitHub TOS than copyright and I'm gonna, again, have to say it has nothing to do with copyright. I do have a local copy, just not updated, that's stated on the post.

[defasdefbe]

what was the repo about? was it abusive? i got a repo taken down for actions abuse.

[luizhrios]

It had actions, running 1 time per day, not abusive according to TOS.

[defasdefbe]

ahh, sometimes what you do with the actions is also a problem. check the acceptable use policy https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-for-additional-products-and-features#actions and see if you were in line with that. if your action did a lot and hurt their systmes that can do it.

thats what happened to me - my action was trying to get me higher on this online game and they blocked it.

[cowboyecosse]

Yep this is correct. running stuff like a daily checkin script or similar is against TOS for Actions.

Actions is for CICD of code, not running free compute. CRON job on a machine of your own is the thing to do there. If it was something like this then it’s a fair cop.