[Labs-l] DB replication monopoly or not

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Just spotted this 
(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-August/006260.html 
):

----

 > > 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?
 >
 >

Assuming you found a non-profit, host your infrastructure somewhere that
doesn't cause legal issues and every person that has access to the data
stream signs an NDA it's likely doable.

----

Can WMF please confirm that this is the case and it wasn't a boutade? If 
yes, could you indicate a single point of contact interested parties can 
negotiate such an arrangement with?
(See also the first unanswered question by Sj at 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_Toolserver#September_2012>.)

Nemo