<quote name="David Gerard" date="2015-01-16" time="16:27:22 +0000"> > This is not a great idea because it makes WMF wikis unforkable in > practical terms. The data is worthless without being able to run an > instance of the software. This will functionally proprietise all WMF > wikis, whatever the licence statement.
"Unforkable" as a binary is not true. "Not easy to fork without implementing all of the pieces carefully" is more accurate. But it's still possible, especially since all of the config/puppet code that is used to do it is open and Freely licensed. It ain't easy hosting a site this large with this amount of traffic (thanks Ops!) so it's not surprising that "forking" it wouldn't be easy either. -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
