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+To whom it may concern
+
+Dear GitHub,
+
+My name is [private] of Simple Machines, home of
+the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) project.
+
+It has come to our attention that a user/project is infringing upon our
+intellectual property by having "forked" a version and removing our
+copyright in the process.
+Whilst we allow forking of our product through the BSD license, we do
+not allow removal of the copyright and consider this a license breach
+and therefor a infringement upon our intellectual property.
+Our work being infringed is SMF 2.x. (You may download a copy to compare
+here: http://download.simplemachines.org/ (See the "Sources" directory
+in the zip/tar))
+Specifically: the "Sources" files.
+
+The infringing material can be found here:
+https://github.com/tapatalk/tapatalk-smf2/tree/master/mobiquo/include
+
+I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials
+described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the
+copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.
+
+Our own attempts to contact [private] has once proven to be fruitful and
+they fixed their scripts. However, unfortunately, they have now removed
+our copyright again and no longer respond to our requests to bring their
+forked material in to compliance with our license.
+We request that your promptly contact them with a warning to bring the
+material in to compliance with our license by restoring our copyright
+headers, or remove the repository should they not comply within a
+reasonable timely manner. (Considering Christmas is coming up, we're
+happy to give some time, though we would sincerely appreciate it if the
+material can be brought in to compliance *before* the 30th of December
+2013...)
+
+The material is owned by:
+Simple Machines
+PMB #2562
+2215 Renaissance Drive
+Suite B
+Las Vegas, NV 89119
+
+I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this
+notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am
+authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is
+allegedly infringed.
+
+Thank you in advance for your quick action.
+On behalf of Simple Machines, I would like to wish you happy holidays
+and a splendid 2014.
+
+Kind regards,
+/s/[private]
+[private] Simple Machines
+[private]
+T: [private]
+E: [private]
+E2: [private]