GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos

This was followed the next day by a partial retraction: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/04/2026-04-0...

The original applied to "8.1K" repositories, and now the partial retraction means they're only taking down one repo "and the 96 fork URLs individually listed in the original notice".

What was different about these?

"Is the work licensed under an open source license?

No"

GPL etc.

Proprietary is proprietary.

They screwed up, the source is out there, 1000s of people have a copy now. It will show up in other places where they won't be able to have it taken down

They could have prevented this by looking at the files that were about to be published.

How could their AI coders let this happen

--yolo