[Labs-l] Questions regarding the Labs Terms of use

Fri Mar 13 21:15:03 UTC 2015

Il 13/03/2015 18:52, Ryan Lane ha scritto:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Ricordisamoa 
> <ricordisamoa at openmailbox.org <mailto:ricordisamoa at openmailbox.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     From
>     https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use
>     (verbatim): "Do not use or install any software unless the
>     software is licensed under an Open Source license".
>     What about tools and services made up of software themselves? Do
>     they have to be Open Source?
>     Strictly speaking, do the Terms of use require that all code be
>     made available to the public?
>     Thanks in advance.
>
>
> As the person who wrote the initial terms and included this I can 
> speak to the spirit of the term (I'm not a lawyer, so I won't try to 
> go into any legal issues).
>
> I created Labs with the intent that it could be used as a mechanism to 
> fork the projects as a whole, if necessary. A means to this end was 
> including non-WMF employees in the process of infrastructure 
> operations (which is outside the goals of the tools project in Labs). 
> Tools/services that are can't be distributed publicly harm that goal. 
> Tools/services that aren't open source completely break that goal. 
> It's fine if you wish to not maintain the code in a public git repo, 
> but if another tool maintainer wishes to publish your code, there 
> should be nothing blocking that.
>
> Depending on external closed source services is a debatable topic. I 
> know in the past we've decided to allow it. It goes against the spirit 
> of the project, but it doesn't require us to distribute close sourced 
> software in the case of a fork.
>
> My personal opinion is that your code should be in a public repository 
> to encourage collaboration. As the terms are written, though, your 
> code is required to be open source, and any libraries it depends on 
> must be as well.
>
> - Ryan

Thanks for the clarification.
I do maintain my code in Git (except for a few quick-and-dirty scripts).
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