How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests (F-Droid)

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1037703/

The F-Droid project has some
advice for free-software projects
on how to deal with takedown
requests.

As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of
legal experts, software freedom advocates, and maintainers of
mature FOSS infrastructure to understand how others manage these
moments. In this article, we share what we learned, and how F-Droid
is incorporating these lessons into its own approach.