Wikitech talk:Cloud Services Terms of use

Possible typo

User:Andrew Bogott: I think you meant "(May 2023)" instead of "(August 2013)" at the added line at the end. (Currently the August 2013 one is linked twice.) whym (talk) 02:21, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

I believe this is still applicable. whym (talk) 14:47, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Fixed! Thank you. andrew (talk) 16:17, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Open Source License

Hi :)

1. Please do this diff for all occurrences:

-http://opensource.org/
+https://opensource.org/

2. I noticed we only mention licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. Is it a desired situation to have no mention about licenses approved by Free Software Foundation? I think it's just an omission in good faith and for reasons of keep things clear and short, but philosophically, avoiding mentioning this altogether is perhaps not the best condition. Do you know any previous discussion about this topic? --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 10:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

The OSI is a standards body that owns the definition of "Open Source". The FSF is an organization that has defined a number of software licenses, but they are not a standards body. The OSI's list of certified Open Source licenses includes (all?) FSF licenses. -- BryanDavis (talk) 14:51, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Github

3. Please do this diff:

-Github
+Github

Premising that, we probably should encourage to adopt Wikimedia GitLab, instead of only mentioning a proprietary platform acquired by Microsoft for billions. Any proposal would be lovely to improve this phrase to don't just promote GitHub in a Terms of use. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 10:22, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

The mentions of GitHub are deliberate. One reference is to a specific policy exception that has been granted and in the other we are explaining that 3rd party code forges are acceptable for publishing source code and in doing so we explicitly mention the single largest 3rd party code forge in use by the movement today. -- BryanDavis (talk) 15:00, 2 December 2023 (UTC)