[Labs-l] Questions regarding the Labs Terms of use

[John]

I for one, have my directories un-readable for non-members. I would
consider it polite to not go snooping in others code without permission.
What is publicly exposed in their public_html is fine, but otherwise its
rude.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Rainer Rillke <rainerrillke at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> > Yes, it clearly states that all software has to be under an Open
> > Source license. But I see no requirement that the software has to be
> > publicly released anywhere, although it would presumably be
> > permissible under the required Open Source license for anyone else
> > with access to it on Labs to publicly redistribute it.
>
> There is an important misconception: Never assume the author licensed
> their code implicitly because the Terms of Use required them to only use
> open Source software on Labs or because it's linked to a component
> requiring copyleft. Only the author is able to grant a license but if
> they refuse to for code one got into ones fingers or if they are
> obviously closed source software, the right course of action here would
> be to drop their software from Labs immediately.
>
> One question remains, though: What to do if file permissions are set in
> a way one can't see the code... or, as suggested it is compiled and/or
> obfuscated. Would that be against Lab's spirit of promoting openSource?
>
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