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Bug 65270 - Default license for operations/puppet
Default license for operations/puppet
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/operat...
: ops
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Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2014-05-13 17:39 UTC by Matthew Flaschen
Modified: 2014-06-05 08:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Matthew Flaschen 2014-05-13 17:39:03 UTC
operations/puppet uses a few different licenses that are explicitly stated in parts (e.g. different modules).  However, that does not seem to be a default license in the root that applies unless otherwise stated.

So if code doesn't specify a license explicitly (which some code in the repo does not), no particular license clearly applies.
Comment 1 Luis Villa (WMF Legal) 2014-05-13 17:56:02 UTC
What are the existing licenses? And do we have them because people are copying/pasting from other people's puppet confs or just because of random individual choice by our developers?
Comment 2 Matthew Flaschen 2014-05-13 19:57:37 UTC
(Probably incomplete) list:

Apache 2.0
GPL (at least 2+ and 3+)
BSD
MIT

I think the main reason for the inconsistency is importing existing open source code.  However, I didn't really look into whether the in-house modules are consistently licensed.

It would be good to ask some of the ops people about this.  I'll link this on the ops list.
Comment 3 Nik Everett 2014-05-13 20:14:24 UTC
The puppet repository contains many small scripts imported directly from upstream repositories.  I imagine not all of them reference where they came from properly.  I also wouldn't be surprised if a few other them have been copied to the repository and modified beyond recognition.  And still I wouldn't be surprised if some came upstreams which never bothered to set a license.
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2014-05-22 17:35:47 UTC
(In reply to Matthew Flaschen from comment #2)
> It would be good to ask some of the ops people about this.  I'll link this
> on the ops list.

That thread on ops@ ("License for operations/puppet") didn't trigger any responses so far.
Comment 5 Matthew Flaschen 2014-05-22 20:58:34 UTC
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #4)
> That thread on ops@ ("License for operations/puppet") didn't trigger any
> responses so far.

Yes, the ops and the legal teams will probably have to take the lead on followup.  Feel free to ping whoever you think is appropriate.

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