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
>>
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