Bryce, We did get the process started, and step one is always reviewing the terms of service before we create an account. Digital Ocean's is at <https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/>. There we ran into section 2.5, which asks us to grant Digital Ocean "a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit such User Content in connection with [DO's services and businesses]."
This has the *potential* to be an issue because we (both Conservancy and the Inkscape team) can't really grant this license for work that other parties released under most FOSS licenses. This section effectively asks for us to grant an extremely permissive license to Digital Ocean for all the User Content anyone uploads. It's not uncommon for service providers to have some kind of clause like this, but it's usually narrower. For example, AWS' TOS just say you agree not to upload anything illegal or against their policies. Are you planning to upload any software to Digital Ocean? This could be uploading software to publish; or a virtual machine image for them to run; anything like that. Basically, anything you can tell us about your plans to use the service can help us better understand how much we should be concerned about this, and what our next steps might be. Thanks, On 12/11/2017 11:41 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi Brett, just following up to see if you've had a chance to look into > setting this up yet? > > Bryce > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 05:03:31PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> Resolved: >> --------- >> SFC should register with DigitalOcean so we can accept their offer and >> proceed with setting up services on their platform. >> >> >> Votes: >> ------ >> >> | Board Member | 1. | >> | -------------------- |:--:| >> | Bryce Harrington | a. | >> | Josh Andler | | >> | Tavmjong Bah | a. | >> | Ted Gould | a. | >> | Martin Owens | a. | >> | Marc Jeanmougin | a. | >> | Chris Rogers | a. | >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:32:28PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >>> Your vote is needed to accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean. >>> >>> 1. Accept DigitalOcean's offer of $500 credit on their virtual hosting >>> system for use in provisioning various Inkscape web services. Add >>> DigitalOcean as a Bronze level sponsor for 2018. Authorize >>> Conservancy to initiate registration with DigitalOcean for Inkscape. >>> >>> - [ ] a. Yes, accept DigitalOcean's sponsorship >>> - [ ] b. No >>> >>> Votes: >>> ------ >>> >>> | Board Member | 1. | >>> | -------------------- |:--:| >>> | Bryce Harrington | | >>> | Josh Andler | | >>> | Tavmjong Bah | | >>> | Ted Gould | | >>> | Martin Owens | | >>> | Marc Jeanmougin | | >>> | Chris Rogers | | >>> >>> >>> Resolved: >>> --------- >>> >>> Background: >>> ----------- >>> >>> In 2017, the Inkscape Board [solicited sponsorship offers][1] for web >>> hosting. We [received an offer][2] from DigitalOcean that provides >>> a credit for $500 in service on their virtual hosting platform. It >>> doesn't match all the requirements we had called for, but it may be able >>> to address near term service needs while we continue our search. >>> >>> Registration with DigitalOcean requires entry of financial information >>> so will need to be performed by the Software Freedom Conservancy staff >>> for us. This vote authorizes them to do so. >>> >>> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/36074233/ >>> [2]: >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01019.html >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inkscape-board mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board -- Brett Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
