On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:13:58PM -0500, Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
Pathoshilds concern is not really valid. 1) per Mike.lifeguards comment, 2) we would not have to actively disseminate the code. The issue is sharing between toolserver users. Potentially harmful tools like pathoschild's (which seem to bee against TS rules anyways) cannot be kept from being distributed just through license terms in any case.
Synchbot does not violate the terms of service in any way. It neither requests nor collects user credentials; users provide temporary access directly to me, knowing the risks of doing so. The Toolserver is simply the platform for providing this service, which you can read about at < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Scripts/Synchbot
. (Account creation is an optional extra service.)
The license indicates what freedoms the author intends for his tools. It makes no sense to license a tool for redistribution if you don't want it redistributed. Trust between Toolserver users is irrelevant here, since home directories are not world-readable.
Up to the lawyers to make a license that people *can* use, to give the rights to the toolserver administrators (aka WM-DE) to use/edit their tools?
That can then be one of the accepted licenses for toolserver tools.
Regards,
Andre