[Toolserver-l] Changes to expired accounts web hosting

[DaB.]

Hello
At Thursday 04 February 2010 21:29:52 DaB. wrote:
> Mike.lifeguard:
> > In the past, when people disappeared, their tools would (maybe) keep
> > working. Now that we know they will stop working once the account is
> > expired, do we know how requests for sourcecode for a tool will be
> > handled, in case someone wants to revive it?
> 
> Currently we don't have a good policy for this.  Many (most?) tools have
>  no  copyright header or license, which makes it difficult to distribute
>  them. There have been some proposals in the past, like assuming tools
>  without licenses will use a particular license, but I'm not too fond of
>  that.
> 
> The solution I like best is to require that all tools be MMTs, but I
>  imagine  some users would object to that ;-)
> 
> This is probably something that WM-DE needs to create a policy for.

I requested such a policy (with a draft (even a english one)) more then 6 
months ago. Maybe now if some important tools will vanish, WM-DE will start to 
think about it.

Added Tim who is responsible for technical-questions.

Sincerly,
DaB.

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