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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10904853

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

https://github.com/Andre0512/hon

https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

and please, don't repost this anywhere, or share it in other communities, or anything like that. It's a shame that so many people already know and are making clones. I'm just letting you know so you don't do anything like telling others who may make their own copies.

(sidenote: Haier owns GE Appliance, so for our American folks it may affect you folks too)

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not a lawyer; would this likely stand up in court? Obviously I wouldn't risk it were I the dev, but just curious.

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

That isn't clear, but probably not. Though if you are a dev there are some open source charities that exist to defend against things like this, so I'd recommend you go look for one.

[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No pale idea, i hope it goes well for the dev but i think he is ok if he takes it down

[–] darelik@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That's ok. Andre0513 has forked the repo and will be continuing its development.