490387 - Improve developer agreement flow

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect, P2)

Description

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

From bug 483987, comment 16:
Things I'd like to see added:
- a "what's this?" link on the version edit page next to the dev agreements
- any tests?

And not blocking but something for future reference and consider changing
later:
- queries in loops are very bad and has killed us before
- Need to check the return value of save().  You can use transactions.

+ put license text in the database

Comment 1

[Bartłomiej Brzozowiec (BartZilla)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> From bug 483987, comment 16:

I guess you mean "bug 483897, comment 16", right? And what about my proposal (ie. bug 483897, comment 17)?

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > From bug 483987, comment 16:
> 
> I guess you mean "bug 483897, comment 16", right? And what about my proposal
> (ie. bug 483897, comment 17)?

I think adding the tri-license sounds good.  CCing Nick.

Comment 3

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

I'll check with legal on the tri-license to see if there's any reason not to include it.

Comment 4

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

To include the tri-license, we have to show three links in the UI to the appropriate licenses when the developer picks a license as well as when users view them.  punt to 5.0.8 since this is actually more than just a 1 day job.

Comment 5

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Some more context- the reason why we have to do this is that the tri-license isn't actually a license, it's an agreement by the developer to adopt three licenses that don't conflict with each other.

Comment 6

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

This is basically three things:

1. Add an option to the list of licenses that says Tri-license (MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1) 
2. Add links that say (View MPL 1.1, View GPL 2.0, View LGPL 2.1) in place of "View license"
3. Add link to FAQ for what's this explaining licensing