Forwarded to legal.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Israel Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Subject: [Wikitech-l] WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Our MobileFrontend extension, which is currently deployed on Wikimedia sites, uses WURFL to detect the mobile devices it targets. However, I recently became aware the version of the WURFL data files we use has a rather restrictive license.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/34311
The license seems to suggest we are not even supposed to redistribute verbatim copies or install the data files on multiple servers rather than only making "[...] one copy [...]", if not merely fail to grant such permission. Currently, the files are in our Subversion repository and are going to end up in Git soon.
I am not a lawyer, and I realize this is probably a matter for the Wikimedia Foundation to handle, albeit one of urgent importance to us. If I am not mistaken, proper removal of infringing material from Git repositories is somewhat painful in that it causes all child SHA-1 hashes to change, so I feel resolution of the above licensing concern blocks Git migration of at least the MobileFrontend extension.
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It's gone from the repot now.
--tomasz
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarded to legal.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Israel Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Subject: [Wikitech-l] WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Our MobileFrontend extension, which is currently deployed on Wikimedia sites, uses WURFL to detect the mobile devices it targets. However, I recently became aware the version of the WURFL data files we use has a rather restrictive license.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/34311
The license seems to suggest we are not even supposed to redistribute verbatim copies or install the data files on multiple servers rather than only making "[...] one copy [...]", if not merely fail to grant such permission. Currently, the files are in our Subversion repository and are going to end up in Git soon.
I am not a lawyer, and I realize this is probably a matter for the Wikimedia Foundation to handle, albeit one of urgent importance to us. If I am not mistaken, proper removal of infringing material from Git repositories is somewhat painful in that it causes all child SHA-1 hashes to change, so I feel resolution of the above licensing concern blocks Git migration of at least the MobileFrontend extension.
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Hi,
Kelly from the legal team has given me the following response:
Thanks for the email. I have read the license and the question and it does appear to limit use to one copy. However, there is a means to request an alternative license terms: Organizations that intend to use this file or the data contained in it commercially or under different licensing terms should contact ScientiaMobile (http://www.scientiamobile.com) to learn about licensing options for WURFL.
I would recommend we contact them and request the ability to make a copy for our repository. I do not see a reason why they would not grant it. We do not intend to use it for commercial purposes and this is not even a public use.
I will coordinate this with Tomasz to explore our options.
Best,
Diederik
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's gone from the repot now.
--tomasz
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarded to legal.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kevin Israel Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Subject: [Wikitech-l] WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Our MobileFrontend extension, which is currently deployed on Wikimedia sites, uses WURFL to detect the mobile devices it targets. However, I recently became aware the version of the WURFL data files we use has a rather restrictive license.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/34311
The license seems to suggest we are not even supposed to redistribute verbatim copies or install the data files on multiple servers rather than only making "[...] one copy [...]", if not merely fail to grant such permission. Currently, the files are in our Subversion repository and are going to end up in Git soon.
I am not a lawyer, and I realize this is probably a matter for the Wikimedia Foundation to handle, albeit one of urgent importance to us. If I am not mistaken, proper removal of infringing material from Git repositories is somewhat painful in that it causes all child SHA-1 hashes to change, so I feel resolution of the above licensing concern blocks Git migration of at least the MobileFrontend extension.
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