Source: Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
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Researchers have analyzed lead contents in soil and have discovered that Rome’s lead plumbing infrastructure reached its peak during the centuries leading up to the empire’s apex. This raises interesting questions regarding Rome’s fate and prosperity.
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Source: AI Horde’s AGPL3 hordelib receives DMCA take-down from hlky
iven the unpredictable nature of these situations, it is important for open source developers to be aware of potential legal issues that could arise from using and modifying free software source libraries. Summary
A DMCA take-down request was issued against the AI Horde Worker library hordelib by hlky, who claimed copyright infringement on a couple of files ported from the nataili library. The files were licensed under AGPL3 and stripping out the explicit license mention was done under the belief that it was allowed by the license terms. After sending a counterclaim to GitHub, the situation remains uncertain.
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💻 The AI Horde Worker includes a customized library: hordelib, based on ComfyUI, which was requested to be taken down due to claims against files ported from the nataili library. 📜 The striped-out explicit license mention from those files, licensed under AGPL3, was done under the belief that it was allowed by the software’s license terms. However, the original licenses put in those files did not require preservation of author attributions.