Everyone is free to edit, compile and use LGPL licensed code however you want on your PC. A DMCA can’t stop that, so it won’t make sense for someone to think that. At the time you share software as a binary which used that LPGL licensed code is when you are legally compelled to follow the license (hosting code on github).
Ah right. So I guess my point was: the DMCA takedown doesn’t necessarily force them to publish the code on GitHub, although luckily in this case they did end up doing that.
I’m not sure I follow that sentence?
Everyone is free to edit, compile and use LGPL licensed code however you want on your PC. A DMCA can’t stop that, so it won’t make sense for someone to think that. At the time you share software as a binary which used that LPGL licensed code is when you are legally compelled to follow the license (hosting code on github).
Ah right. So I guess my point was: the DMCA takedown doesn’t necessarily force them to publish the code on GitHub, although luckily in this case they did end up doing that.
Usually they only comply by suing them, after nagging them for years…