Hi everyone,
yesterday, I stumbled about this (following a link from the elementaryOS website): https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/459306-inkscape
Seems they do 'funded development' for Inkscape (and everyone else...) without us even knowing about it (or maybe someone does?). They pull the data from launchpad.
They say they collect money for bug bounties, and reward that to the dev who closes the bug, with a 10% deduction if the dev asks for transfer of the money to his/her bank account/paypal account/etc.
I don't know how (if?) they inform a developer about the bounty, when the project doesn't even have a representative registered on their website. To me, it sounded as if the developer must actively ask them to pay out the reward (please read their TOS/FAQ, I'm not a native speaker). They also allow projects to setup donation campaigns.
Currently, there are no bounties for Inkscape on their site.
Do we need to do anything about this?
The options we have seem to be: - create an account and make sure that everything goes correctly, and use it actively - create an account and just keep an eye on it - ask them to not include Inkscape, or somehow make it clear that this is not endorsed by us (if it isn't) - officially decide that that thing can run in parallel with our own funded projects without problems and without us doing anything
Regards, Maren