On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 02:05:16PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > 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. > > > Does no one else have any comments on this ? Based on the previous > discussions around possible use of GitLab as a replacement for Pagure, > it feels like a no-brainer that this legal agreement from Weblate > would be inappropriate to ask of Fedora contributors. > > Well those of us in the US are getting back from Turkey Weekend and either declaring email bankruptcy or getting through the 900 emails in their inqueue (I still have 400 left it seems). I don't think this is something contributors should have to agree to and it has been a killer in the past for other 'partnerships' we have had. At this point, I think it needs to be brought up with the Fedora Council (I don't think FESCO has a purview here over the Translation team but it might). -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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