Hi, Kelly from the legal team has given me the following response:
Thanks for the email. I have read the license and the question and it does appear to limit use to one copy. However, there is a means to request an alternative license terms: Organizations that intend to use this file or the data contained in it commercially or under different licensing terms should contact ScientiaMobile (http://www.scientiamobile.com) to learn about licensing options for WURFL. I would recommend we contact them and request the ability to make a copy for our repository. I do not see a reason why they would not grant it. We do not intend to use it for commercial purposes and this is not even a public use. I will coordinate this with Tomasz to explore our options. Best, Diederik On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
