ccing Steven from WMF Legal to chime in. I am not a lawyer so I'll shut up.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:53 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Code can be under a free license, but not released to general public. I > often help others out, or give them small snippets of my code base when it > is needed. However I will not publicly publish my code. I keep things under > a secure private code repository because I really dont want to have to deal > with the fallout if I accidentally include credentials or some other > non-public data. One of the other reasons is, I dont write most of my code > for the general public to use, if someone who doesnt know what they are > doing screws up, I dont want my code responsible for crashing a wiki. (Yes > it is possible, Ive dont it before by accident.) > > I will not be handing out copies of my code to anyone who asks. But I will > review requests, and if Im hit by a bus and can no longer support my tools > then and only then will tools admins step in. > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Mar 13, 2015 10:49 AM, "Ricordisamoa" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > What about tools and services made up of software themselves? Do they >> > have to be Open Source? >> >> What are "tools and services made up of software themselves"? are there >> "tools and services" not made up of software? >> >> On Mar 13, 2015 10:58 AM, "John" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > That's debatable. Released under a free license vs publicly available. >> >> [citation needed] >> >> > My code is not published for several reasons >> >> Name them? >> >> -Jeremy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
