[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2017-10-11

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hello all!

Tanks to Kevin for taking over while I was on vacation. And apologies for
skipping the radar for our meeting on September 27.

Here are the minutes from this week's meeting. I have folded in some relevant
points from the previous weeks.

* SQL backend for EventLogging is to be dropped in favor of the hadoop backend.

* OCG has been turned off. Electron is a temporary replacement.

* CommTech is seeking guidance on global preference implementation.


* Ops had to turn off Wikidata RecentChanges integration on big wikis for
performance reasons, looking into workarounds:


* This week’s IRC discussion: Move rpc/RunJobs.php to core
. You can find the minutes at


* Next week’s IRC discussion: Requiring PHP 7


As always, the discussion will take place in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office on Wednesday 21:00 UTC (2pm PDT, 23:00 CEST).


You can also find our meeting minutes at


See also the TechCom RFC board
.

-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Update on Artifex v. Hancom GNU GPL compliance case

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/update-on-artifex-v-hancom-gnu-gpl-compliance-case-1

 Messaggio inoltrato 
Oggetto:Update on Artifex v. Hancom GNU GPL compliance case
Data:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:05:18 -0400

[...]

Hancom here made several arguments against the contract claim, but one 
is of particular interest. Hancom argued that if any contract claim is 
allowed, damages should only be considered prior to the date of their 
initial violation. They argued that since the violation terminated their 
license, the contract also ended at that point. The judge noted that:


/the language of the GPL suggests that Defendant’s obligations
persisted beyond termination of its rights to propagate software
using Ghostscript ... because the source code or offer of the source
code is required each time a “covered work” is conveyed, each time
Defendant distributed a product using Ghostscript there was arguably
an ensuing obligation to provide or offer to provide the source code./

The judge also found that there was insufficient evidence at this point 
to rule on this issue, so we can't read too much into it. [...]


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