U.Today - Ethereum (ETH) veteran Pascal Marco Caversaccio shared details of his open-source Uniswap v4 fork being one step away from a DMCA takedown. Uniswap (UNI) founder Hayden Adams admitted that this attack was "unnecessary" — here's why.
Copyright wars in open-source DeFi: Who is able to fork Uniswap v4?
Caversaccio, a long-term contributor to the EVM ecosystem, announced yesterday, Aug. 4, 2023, that the Uniswap (UNI) team attempted to take down the fork of its v4 version published on GitHub. The developer added that he only opened this to change the license status of the code to "Affero General Public License" with no plans of commercial usage.This move was necessary to make truly open source as its license should allow everyone to commit to its code base without limitations:
By printing time, this idea scored support of over 300 Ethereum (ETH) developers on GitHub.
However, Uniswap Labs representatives initiated a DMCA report to the GitHub team and stressed that the action by Caversaccio should be considered a copyright infringement. He only had seven days to remove the Uniswap v4 fork from his repository.
It should also be noted that yesterday, Polygon Labs accused of copying a large portion of Polygon's SNARK Plonky2 code base in the Boojum upgrade.
"Takedown was unnecessary," Uniswap (UNI) founder says
The Ethereum (ETH) community was enraged by the action of Uniswap Labs. Rotki app founder Lefteris Karapetsas stressed that simply publishing code cannot violate any type of license:Today, Aug. 5, 2023, the Uniswap (UNI) founder Hayden Adams responded to the accusations. He for the actions of his team and admitted that taking down the Uniswap v4 fork was unnecessary.
The status of the Uniswap (UNI) software license caused debates in the crypto community. Ripple CTO David Schwartz that with a BSL license the project cannot be considered decentralized.