Fabian Knittel ha scritto: > Am 25.05.2010 10:42, schrieb David Sommerseth: > >> Personally, I would also not enforce BSD as the only license for >> bounties. We need to provide at least a choice, at least between GPL >> and BSD. >> >> I would not consider to license my contributions to OpenVPN as BSD, >> because a) I want other people to be able to review my code at any >> point, no matter the circumstances the code is used, and b) If someone >> modifies/improves the code, I want these changes to be shared with the >> community. GPL gives that possibility. >> > > I agree with both of your points. > > > I assume that the monetary value of a bounty is far lower than what a > professional programmer would usually be paid. Therefore the > bounty-work would still be (at least in part) a voluntary work. > So, defining that whoever provides the bounty also always more-or-less > owns the rights on the resulting work, looks somewhat wrong. > > Allowing bounties to define the licensing details to a certain degree > would circumvent the problem. I assume the typical bounty would be > rather low and should therefore allow the contributor to stick with the > project's license - the GNU GPL. > > > A few links that might of interest on the topic of bounties: > > http://live.gnome.org/BountiesDiscussion lists some interesting thoughts. > > http://nextsprocket.com/ looks like a relatively active site for > opensource bounties in general. > > https://www.bountysource.com/ Interesting "How do bounties work" diagram > on the front page. > > Cheers > Fabian > > Interesting links! Integrating the bounty tasks to our established development process takes care of the "I'll write something that barely works to claim the bounty" issue. Eric's suggestion to handing out the bounty money in three phases mitigates issues with feature maintenance and bug fixing. I think it'd make sense to require that the person claiming a bounty has contributed a non-trivial patch to the project earlier. Also, discussing the feasibility of the task before it's claimed is important. Even if some feature seems trivial on paper, it might be hard to implement in practice. Trying to do this kind tasks would just frustrate all involved parties.
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