Drupal Planet Content Licensing Concerns

Hello,

I started contacting every person/organization that syndicates content onto Planet Drupal in an effort to gain community feedback about a serious legal issue that was brought to my attention by a DMCA takedown notice I received recently. I decided it would be better to just publish this issue here instead of contacting 366 other sites. I received this DMCA takedown notice by a particular website on Planet Drupal for syndicating Drupal.org content on my website. I feel this is not the way people contributing content to Drupal.org should be acting since Drupal.org's content is licensed under a Creative Commons Share Alike 2.5 license. Since then the Adsense ads on my site, which sometimes help pay for part of my hosting costs, have been disabled because of the complaint.

Should someone who is syndicating their content on Planet Drupal, part of Drupal.org and licensed as Creative Commons Share Alike 2.5, be able to continue doing so if they are going to file DMCA takedown notices for alleged copyright infringement to those promoting content on Drupal.org itself? I have never received a DMCA notice since I started archiving Planet Drupal in early 2009. I don't feel that someone who is going to physically tag their content on their website to be syndicated through RSS to Drupal.org should be able to file a DMCA takedown notice on someone who got content off of Drupal.org and syndicated it through RSS to their site. Is that even legal? Should someone like this be able to continue to syndicate their content on Planet Drupal? I did not receive any sort of DMCA notice from Drupal.org, so I am unsure why this author feels like they can send a DMCA notice on Drupal.org's behalf. Again, I syndicated content from Drupal.org, not their website.

Please let me know your thoughts on this matter. Once I have gathered enough information I will be able to figure out what my next steps are. If it stands that I am not following the content licensing guidelines on Drupal.org then please let me know what I should do to remedy that situation. Otherwise, I feel that this person's website feed should be removed from Planet Drupal for not abiding by Drupal.org's content licensing that they entered into while tagging their content Drupal Planet and thus syndicating it to Drupal.org. They did not have to tag the article for syndication to Drupal.org if they did not want to share it.

For reference and quoted from the Drupal Licensing FAQ page, http://drupal.org/licensing/faq/#q5.
"All content on the Drupal.org itself is copyrighted by its original contributors and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 2.0. Sample code is also available under the GPL version 2 or later."

I would like some clarification on Drupal Planet content licensing at the very least here. If my research is correct, perhaps those publishing their content to the feed should be made absolutely aware of what sort of licensing agreement they might are entering into when publishing their content on Drupal.org through Planet Drupal. That way incidents like this don't happen in the future.

Syndicated by https://www.drupal.org/project/webmasters/issues/1123062