Re: GNUstep Discord Server

[David Chisnall]

On 19/11/2019 16:17, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 15:43, David Chisnall <gnustep@theravensnest.org> wrote:
> > Their T&Cs are not some that I would ever consider agreeing to, or that
> > I would ever recommend for any free / open source software project and I
> > would strongly recommend that anyone considering using this service
> > reads their T&Cs carefully before deciding to accept them.
>
> Interesting. Just gave them a quick look.
>
> Bearing in mind that it's a gaming service, they looked fair enough.
> What were your objections?

It's not a gaming service, it's a collaboration platform (originally one 
for gaming, but that's not how it's used in this context).  A few things:

1. They have a very broad commercial license to anything that people 
say, including in private chats.

2. You warrant that you own the copyright on everything you upload.  If 
you copy any GNUstep code into the chat, for example, you are breaking 
the T&Cs.

3. They are limited to non-commercial use, which is poorly defined but 
probably precludes anyone building products on GNUstep (at the very 
least) from using it to discuss GNUstep without violating the T&Cs.

David