Update or information about legal from WhatsApp Inc.?

[fquinto]

"Sources are unavailable while we have a conversation with WhatsApp's legal team member."

Any new information about this?

INFO: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI#september-19-note

[timespace7]

I'm afraid that this project is being cancelled....

[cdesjardins]

We got a cease and desist letter from whatsapp, as such I will no longer be contributing to the project. It seems some people were using whatsapi for spamming...

[patschi]

Are you still writing with them? Maybe you can find an agreement with them. Example you only give access to the source, who applies a short application before. If he spams (when whatsapp inc. says it to you) you can disable the access for this person. Just an idea... This API is very great, I'm using it on my homepage: When I get a PM there, I'll get an WhatsApp message too :) And I get an Whatsapp-message, when there's a new steam sale too :D
Thanks for all your good work! :)

[timespace7]

Hope this project can be continued! This project is awesome!

[yuvadm]

Pathetic response by WhatsApp, sending the lawyers over instead of securing their protocol.

In any case it's nice of you to have kept the source history and not rebased it. I've forked the repo at https://github.com/yuvadm/WhatsAPI and reverted the tree back to before the legal takedown request.

[fquinto]

Closing the source code does not stop people continue doing spam. If you want to stop spam WhatsApp they will have to implement more security. I think WhatsApp is wrong this time and all you will get is bad publicity. Every day there are new emerging messaging systems. Without an API, official or not, you are less open to the developers. These messaging companies will must evolve (doing security) or die (because they haven't an API).

Another question is that the core of developers get an agreement with WhatsApp to develop an official API or something like that...

Thank you all developers, not for spammers.

[ghost]

^ PREACH! I don't understand what they are waiting for! With a massive user base, its about damn time they release an API. Shutting down this one won't stop spammers. Look at this site http://www.whatsapp-api.com/ The best thing for WhatsApp to do is to put out an official API.

[ghost]

http://www.whatsapp-api.com/ don't work

[ghost]

It worked for me though.

[filandlam]

Hope this project get online again the soonest

[driverdan]

WhatsApp has absolutely no legal basis for demanding you take this project down, especially if you're not under their jurisdiction. Do not cave to their baseless claims.

[m0veax]

The german IT Webpage Heise has some articles about whatsapp and the
jurisdiction.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/WhatsApp-droht-API-Entwicklern-mit-rechtlichen-Schritten-1716546.html

2012/9/25 Dan DeFelippi notifications@github.com

WhatsApp has absolutely no legal basis for demanding you take this project
down, especially if you're not under their jurisdiction. Do not cave to
their baseless claims.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/83#issuecomment-8859739.

[tomwolfgang]

What happened? I see the sources are back?

[fquinto]

Anybody have more information or new information to us? Can you publish the letter, email or legal document from WhatsApp? Maybe this is interesting to developers or community. Thank you.

[cdesjardins]

I have all of the information you seek, but I will let the project founder publish the letter if he thinks it is appropriate. It seems that we got nailed by a disgusting lawyer trolling for lawsuits. Apparently WhatsApp claims they would not target devs like us, because it is just bad PR for them.

That being said the onus is on us not to take advantage of their network for spam and/or spoofing other peoples ID, it seems that if we fly under the radar, and respect their system, then they will leave us alone.

[montasir1]

How I can do that I have whatsapp share

[fquinto]

@cdesjardins, thanks for the information.

[hubail]

As @cdesjardins said, it was an unofficial letter. Upon further conversation they said they will not just sue developers.
So yeah, as long as you don't abuse the protocol, guys...