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

[Ricordisamoa]

Il 13/03/2015 18:36, Tim Landscheidt ha scritto:
> (anonymous) wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> To be clear: I'm not going to make my code proprietary in
>> any way. I just wanted to know whether I'm entitled to ask
>> for the source of every Labs bot ;-)
> Everyone is entitled to /ask/, but I don't think you have a
> right to /receive/ the source :-).

What's the purpose of open source then? (Apart from the two you mentioned)

>
> AFAIK, there are two main reasons for the clause:
>
> a) WMF doesn't want to have to deal with individual licences
>     that may or may not have the potential for litigation
>     ("The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil").  With
>     requiring OSI-approved, tried and true licences, the risk
>     is negligible.
>
> b) Bots and tools running on an infrastructure financed by
>     donors, like contributions to Wikipedia & Co., shouldn't
>     be usable for blackmail.  Noone should be in a legal po-
>     sition to demand something "or else ..."  The perpetuity
>     of OS licences guarantees that everyone can be truly
>     thankful to developers without having to fear that other-
>     wise they shut down devices, delete content, etc.
>
> But the nice thing about collaboratively developed open
> source software is that it usually is of a better quality,
> so clandestine code is often not that interesting.
>
> Tim
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