[Labs-l] Wikidata games

[Magnus Manske]

Added LICENSE file, GPL 2.0 or later.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Mark Holmquist <mtraceur at member.fsf.org>wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:50:03PM +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> > In general, you can find the maintainers of a particular
> > tool by looking at http://tools.wmflabs.org/.  This lists
> > Magnus Manske for wikidata-game, so now you'd need to know
> > that Magnus adds a link to his source repositories in prac-
> > tically every one of his tools, except this one :-).  If you
> > look at those other tools, you get pointed to
> > https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske where wikidata-game is
> > the repository listed at the top.
>
> Then, you look for the license, only to find there isn't one, and realize
> you aren't legally allowed to distribute copies (modified or not) of this
> software to anyone, which makes contributing to it basically impossible.
>
> Magnus: Please add a license to your repository, in order to bring the
> software into compliance with the Labs TOU, which states [0]:
>
> > Proprietary software: Do not use or install any software unless the
> software is licensed under an Open Source license.
>
> [0]
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use#What_uses_of_Labs_do_we_not_like.3F
>
> This PSA about How Copyright Works is brought to you by countless hours
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> Mark Holmquist
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