It's gone from the repot now. --tomasz
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Mono <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarded to legal. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kevin Israel > Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 > Subject: [Wikitech-l] WURFL licensing concerns and Git migration > To: [email protected] > > > Our MobileFrontend extension, which is currently deployed on Wikimedia > sites, uses WURFL to detect the mobile devices it targets. However, I > recently became aware the version of the WURFL data files we use has a > rather restrictive license. > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/34311 > > The license seems to suggest we are not even supposed to redistribute > verbatim copies or install the data files on multiple servers rather > than only making "[...] one copy [...]", if not merely fail to grant > such permission. Currently, the files are in our Subversion repository > and are going to end up in Git soon. > > I am not a lawyer, and I realize this is probably a matter for the > Wikimedia Foundation to handle, albeit one of urgent importance to us. > If I am not mistaken, proper removal of infringing material from Git > repositories is somewhat painful in that it causes all child SHA-1 > hashes to change, so I feel resolution of the above licensing concern > blocks Git migration of at least the MobileFrontend extension. > > -- > Wikipedia user PleaseStand > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
