I got DMCA'd by Anthropic (not a joke)

A developer recounts receiving a DMCA takedown notice from Anthropic on GitHub, affecting their fork of the official Claude Code repository — a fork containing only a one-word change. The DMCA was part of a mass takedown targeting 8,100 repositories, which turned out to be a miscommunication between Anthropic and GitHub. Anthropic quickly retracted the notice for all repos except those mirroring the actual leaked source code. The author ultimately partially defends Anthropic, crediting their transparent crisis communications, while strongly criticizing their decision to keep Claude Code closed source as the root cause of the entire situation.