Twitter’s Legal Bid to Unmask Source Code Leaker: Explained (1)

Twitter Inc. has turned to copyright law to expose the identity of the person who leaked its platform’s source code on GitHub Inc.'s website, relying on a process the social media giant has fought in the past to protect its own users.

The San Francisco-based US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday issued a subpoena requiring GitHub, a public software repository, to hand over information about the person behind the username FreeSpeechEnthusiast. GitHub has until April 3 to respond to the order, which Twitter requested last week.

The user appears to have created the account on ...