Submission + - WURFL founders fire off DMCA takedown against the (shkspr.mobi)
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 licensed under a liberal licence. Newer versions of the device database are licensed under restrictive licenses which does not allow any modification or redistribution. Can ScientiaMobile retroactively alter the distribution terms for the older versions of their database?