docs(guides): give appropriate attribution to Microsoft Lage #370
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The Scoped Tasks and Pipelines pages are copied from Microsoft’s Monorepo tool, Lage. https://github.com/microsoft/lage This gives proper attribution at the top of each of the docs pages.
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Yes, I believe turbo did end up using lage as a roadmap and maybe forking / starting point by looking at the similarity of structures in code. @jaredpalmer and I had indeed Twitter DM some, but we didn’t collab on code directly. I do wish that we could have collaborated more rather than a complete rewrite - lage was fully functional for the scale to build most of the Office apps (including the new Loop stuff). I’m happy to see someone taking these ideas and implementing in native languages, but I’m not convinced that we are really bottlenecked by the orchestrator yet at our scale. Anyway, attributions is great! I personally think there is room to have competing implementations. In fact, there are some other cool monorepo projects from Microsoft like rush and buildxl that might be of interest to whoever wants to dig! |
This pull request adds a note to the docs pages for “Scoped Tasks” and “Pipelines” to properly attribute Microsoft for copyrighted content that Turborepo copied from the documentation for Microsoft’s monorepo tool, Lage. Currently, both pages on Turborepo’s documentation come across as original work by the Turborepo team, even though the credit seems it mostly belongs with the Lage maintainers at Microsoft.
If you compare the pages on Turborepo’s and Lage’s docs, you can see how similar the text content, and APIs are:
The headings on both sites are nearly identical, and most of the text content is the same. As you can see by looking at the source for Lage’s Scoped Tasks page, the last edit was made on July 24, 2020, long before Turborepo was ever created. https://github.com/microsoft/lage/blob/master/docs/guide/scopes.md.
As you can see by looking at the source for Lage’s Pipelines page, the last edit was made on August 16, 2020, long before Turborepo was ever created. https://github.com/microsoft/lage/blob/master/docs/guide/pipeline.md.
@jaredpalmer acknowledged the Pipeline design came from Lage on Twitter back in March, but hasn’t given proper attribution for the docs pages that were copied from Lage. https://twitter.com/jaredpalmer/status/1377617245510250496?s=20
The Lage repository is MIT licensed, which can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/lage/blob/master/LICENSE. Note the following excerpt from the MIT license:
For convenience, I’ve attached the text diff of the markdown files for both Turborepo and Lage, as well as screenshots of the pages on both sites.
Here is the Copyleaks report for the Pipelines page: https://copyleaks.com/education/report/dj88n4iptch6myn2/preview?key=ulrhw01ot1sqkiyk&viewMode=one-to-many&contentMode=html&sourcePage=1&suspectPage=1
Here is the Copyleaks report for the Scoped Tasks page: https://copyleaks.com/education/report/edkgued679mhw2kq/preview?key=v0bfr6qjy8qim9jg&viewMode=one-to-many&contentMode=html&sourcePage=1&suspectPage=1
If Turborepo has an agreement with Microsoft to use their intellectual property without attribution, please disregard this pull request.