On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/12/12 16:58, DaB. wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I just came back from a meeting with Denis Barthel. Denis is a long-time > > employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and works in the resort > "Community". > > Denis was assigned to help to normalize the relationship between the > > Toolserver, WMDE and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF); especially in the > field of > > WikiLabs/Toollabs. His opinion is that if we all work together the move > from > > the toolserver to Wikilabs can work. I still doubt that, but I agreed to > give > > WMF a little more AGF (assume good faith). > > As you know the general meeting of WMDE decided that the WMF has to > guarantee > > that the features of the toolserver exists in WikiLabs within 6 months > > (otherwise WMDE has to look for a way to continue the toolserver). Denis > asked > > me to provide such a list of short-time-base. > > The toolserver allows propietary tools. This is required by some users > and should thus be considered a toolserver feature (“i wrote code at > work for my company and reuse parts for my bot framework. I have not the > right to declare this code as open source which is needed by labs > policy.” [1]). > > Given that it has been stated from WMF side that closed-apps won't be > supported, it seems impossible that “the features of the toolserver > exists in WikiLabs”. > > > [1] Mail on Sep 26th by Merlissimo. > > Am I the only one that sees [1] as a giant liability issue? He's using his company's IP, which opens toolserver up to lawsuits. - Ryan
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