On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:42:01PM -0800, Ryan Lane wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Platonides platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/12/12 16:58, DaB. wrote:
Hello all,
I just came back from a meeting with Denis Barthel. Denis is a long-time employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and works in the resort
"Community".
Denis was assigned to help to normalize the relationship between the Toolserver, WMDE and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); especially in the
field of
WikiLabs/Toollabs. His opinion is that if we all work together the move
from
the toolserver to Wikilabs can work. I still doubt that, but I agreed to
give
WMF a little more AGF (assume good faith). As you know the general meeting of WMDE decided that the WMF has to
guarantee
that the features of the toolserver exists in WikiLabs within 6 months (otherwise WMDE has to look for a way to continue the toolserver). Denis
asked
me to provide such a list of short-time-base.
The toolserver allows propietary tools. This is required by some users and should thus be considered a toolserver feature (“i wrote code at work for my company and reuse parts for my bot framework. I have not the right to declare this code as open source which is needed by labs policy.” [1]).
Given that it has been stated from WMF side that closed-apps won't be supported, it seems impossible that “the features of the toolserver exists in WikiLabs”.
[1] Mail on Sep 26th by Merlissimo.
Am I the only one that sees [1] as a giant liability issue? He's using his company's IP, which opens toolserver up to lawsuits.
- Ryan
There is a difference between having permission from your employer to use the code for other purposes, and allowing the code to be open-sourced.
Regards,
André