When accessing https://translate.fedoraproject.org today I was surprised to find that after authenticating with Fedora, I'm *required* to agree to new commercial / legal T&Cs before I'm now allow to access any part of the site.
Weblate has been around in Fedora for a few years and so I don't recall if there was an agreement elsewhere I previously blindly ticked through when first accessing Weblate after Fedora rolled it out. The post-login mandatory agreement screen, however, is not something I remember seeing before. After the Fedora auth is done you get redirected to https://translate.fedoraproject.org/legal/confirm/?next=%2Faccounts%2Fcomplete%2Ffedora-oidc%2F%3Fpartial_token%3Dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The presented terms appear to be the same as those displayed at https://weblate.org/en/terms/ IMHO an approved Fedora account should imply access to all official Fedora services including our Weblate service, with no further legal agreements to sign with 3rd party commercial companies. Especially when the service is presented under the fedoraproject.org domain and uses the Fedora auth service for accounts. I filed a Fedora infra ticket but was told Fedora infra don't own the service. IIUC it is externally hosted for Fedora by Weblate. It is unclear who owns the relationship between Fedora & Weblate, so I filed a ticket with the Fedora translation team[1]. The response was that they see no problem with this agreement, and suggested I raise a discussion topic. I'm not party to any agreement between Weblate & the Fedora project, and yet I'm asked to agree with a load of commercial terms involving payments and invoicing, such as "Invoices will be issued electronically. The User agrees to the electronic issuance of invoices and to receiving them via electronic means. Invoices will be issued with a due date of 14 calendar days. " "The User is obliged to pay the Price based on the received tax documents (invoices) issued by the Provider. The Price is paid in advance, and the invoice is issued and delivered to the User within 5 working days after the end of each relevant period. " "For the avoidance of doubt, the Parties explicitly confirm that they are business entities and that they are entering into this Agreement within the scope of their business activities." All of this should be irrelevant for Fedora contributors. The Fedora Project should be the party that agrees terms with Weblate, such that all Fedora contributors have access to the service with no additional legal agreements. With regards, Daniel [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-l10n/tickets/issue/45 -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
