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

Ryan Lane rlane32 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 21:04:20 UTC 2015


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/03/15 21:23, Ryan Lane wrote:
>
>> This alone is actually an excellent reason to require that code be
>> publicly accessible, with a license associated before tools are allowed
>> to be run.
>>
>> This was a pretty major problem in toolserver. When the migration
>> occurred there were a number of tools that had no license and couldn't
>> be moved because of that.
>>
>> I'd be in favor of pushing to make it a requirement for new tools.
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
>
> Toolserver required a default license for years, and you had to agree with
> that when renewing your account. So I'm quite sure there was a license
> applicable for all tools. The license could be propietary though, and that
> could impede the migration


Ah. That must have been the issue. Thanks for the clarification!

- Ryan
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