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Thanks for the link. I ended up just dumping them all here in JSON format so at least they are archived somewhere, if he does a full delete: https://github.com/forkingforker/WhatsAPI-issues-milestones-...

That fork only has a PHP implementation. The other fork I found, for instance, has Python implementation: https://github.com/abdosumsam/WhatsAPI

That one dates from 4/2013.

This one found via a recent merge-request is current to 9/2014.

https://github.com/Sydcul/WhatsAPI/

I wonder how these companies issuing takedown requests handle forks.

I guess they don't, unless a particular fork becomes popular enough to stand on its own.

Github iirc will, if they have to take down the parent repo, take down all (automatically) forked ones

This wasn't a DMCA complaint (Or whatever equivalent - if that's not correct) sent to Github though, this was sent directly to the author of the original repository. But point still stands - even if Github took it down, there are forks out there - the code will always exist.

Also, see https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/16a6349a1fbc9e9a...

He didn't actually even wipe the history.

I assume he plans to completely wipe the repository after a short time of this notice being public.

I feel the potential for an internet movement to just fork the forked repos just to send WhatsApp a big middle finger.

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