On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:42:01PM -0800, Ryan Lane wrote: > 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
There is a difference between having permission from your employer to use the code for other purposes, and allowing the code to be open-sourced. Regards, André _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
