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New uniswap drama: the lawyers sent takedown notices to legitimate forks that removed censorship.

If you are looking to embed uni functionality into your app, glance over micro-eth-signer (https://github.com/paulmillr/micro-eth-signer). It allows to call Uni contract directly, without censorship, in 10 lines of code.

Security, austrian school. Developing noble cryptography: audited js libraries for web3. https://paulmillr.com/noble

Not suing yet, threatening hosters for “copyright violation”. Which is nonsense.

Now that the matter got public they’re trying to fix it, of course.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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Not suing yet, threatening hosters for “copyright violation”. Which is nonsense.

Now that the matter got public they’re trying to fix it, of course.

https://x.com/micahzoltu/status/1753416705983074668

Am I reading this right — they’re suing to keep uniswap frontends censored?

My main emphasis is that if it hadn’t become viral on X, there would have been no “fix” from uniswap labs. Which is similar to how big corps are working.

Some adjustments to legal process are warranted to prevent this.

Not true at all

The UI has been forked thousands of times, it’s v easy to do so. Code is gpl for a reason and we like UI forks

We do domain takedowns for trademark issues that make the site appear as if it was built by Uniswap labs (like using the branding or name in url)

It’s very easy to just not use the brand