Hello, Am 29.08.2013 02:24, schrieb Ryan Lane:
Please read: http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
let me quote the German Wikipedia, which is a lot clearer in this point as the English Wikipedia
Open Source [oʊpən ˈsɔːɹs] (engl., US), [əʊpən ˈsɔːs] (brit.) und quelloffen nennt man Software, deren Lizenzbestimmungen in Bezug auf die Weitergabe der Software besagen, dass der Quelltext öffentlich zugänglich ist und – je nach entsprechender Lizenz – frei kopiert, modifiziert und verändert wie unverändert weiterverbreitet werden darf.
As you can see it says clearly that OpenSource means ONLY that you can look into the source – only the license can permit to copy/modify/distribute whatever, A common example for a non-free open-source software is PGP, where you can look into the source but has to buy it to use it.
@Dr. trigon: To answer you question what will happen to these tools: It is easy, they will die with the toolserver. WMDE and WMF destroy them together.
Or people are free to move them to infrastructure that isn't funded by the donations to a movement that has Open Content as one of the five pillars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_free_content. The tools and bots that keep this content alive and free are in my opinion an extension of that pillar.
The goal of Wikipedia is to create, store and provide free knowledge. How we do this doesn’t matter. Most Wikipedians for example use Windows as OS, nearly all pictures are taken with commercial cameras (with unfree firmware), images are modified with Photoshop and videos are cut with Adobe. And as long as the result is free, that doesn’t matter. And a word of the goals of donators: They donate for Wikipedia. Not for the WMF, the WMDE, Labs, Toolserver, Wikidata or free software. If I remove a single associate of WMF or WMDE it would save more money than removing the TS BTW.
I'm more than happy to recommend a number of cloud services and am more than willing to give advice on how to configure and run tools and bots from those services. It's even possible to reuse the work we're doing in the tools project, or in the Wikimedia infrastructure via our puppet repository since our infrastructure is Open Source.
Very nice idea – how I get the mysql-replication-stream? I got several offers of donation if the Toolserver would continue; the only problem is the replication-data. But because the data is open-source, it shouldn’t be a problem than, should it?
- Ryan
Sincerely, DaB.