@berrange filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #553. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.
Discussed in 2025-12-03 Fedora Council meeting.
The Fedora Council discussed this topic during our recent meeting. We understand why the community is upset and confused by the Weblate Terms & Conditions (T&Cs). Although these terms are dated from November 2024 and have not changed recently, the language implying that individual contributors (“Users”) are obliged to pay invoices is unacceptable in the context of our community platform.
It appears likely that Weblate did not fully understand the implications of applying these standard commercial terms to our specific hosted instance. However, we want to be absolutely clear: Red Hat holds a specific contract with Weblate for this service which supersedes the general T&Cs users are seeing, and the financial responsibility lies solely with Red Hat. There is no obligation for individual translators or users to take financial responsibility for the Fedora Weblate service.
I am currently working with stakeholders at Red Hat and Weblate to clarify this situation and ensure these confusing T&Cs are addressed and not shown to Fedora translators. We ask for your patience while we work through these legal and administrative details. Please feel reassured that you are not liable for these costs, and we encourage you to continue your valuable translation work.