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Message from@MythicManiac

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On August 9th 2022,Riot Games issued a cease & desist to me personally,demanding that this GitHub repository and the associated Discord server to betaken down on the basis of them supposedly infringing Riot's copyright. I haveno reason to believe the repository is violating Riot's copyright rights, andI’m not operating and haven’t operated a private League of Legends server. WhileI'm glad to help protect Riot's copyright rights, it’s not clear to me whatrights they think have been violated and what they think my role might have beenin that regard. I’m also a huge advocate of Open Source and GitHubcollaboration. I informed them regarding all of this.

Like any content creator, Riot has every right to enforce its copyrights.Even though their demand letter was vague, I think it was sent out in goodfaith. It would be a different matter if Riot was sending out false claims andabusing the legal system for their gain, but I don't believe that to be the casehere. In any event, it looks like they had a simple misconception about theextent of my involvement with this project.

Legal allegations aside, this incident has had me re-think my involvement withthe project. Given that I haven't been an active participant since 2018,it doesn't feel right for me to retain administrator permissions in the mainfork of the project.

Likewise it's in the spirit of open source for maintainers to change over time,and I believe that's long overdue in this case. In fact you could say themaintainer already changed in 2018, I just didn't transfer them my admincredentials.

Based on these reasons, and in light of Riot's wishes,I've decided the bestcourse of action is to archive this project, closing it to furthercontributions.

I believe archival to be a good solution as that ensures any prior contributorscan still use their contributions e.g. as a part of their portfolio (somethingI know older contributors have done & continue to do) while still signaling theend of my role in its entirety.

Finally, I suggest anyone who dislikes the way copyright laws work currently toget more politically active in favor of creative freedom, and to supportorganizations such asthe EFF.