I just got done cleaning up the rules and guide for the bounties. its a sort of final working version, but I think its more or less done for all to see now. Please take a look and let me know what you think and your feelings on this. Also please take the time to thank cdfr for all his help in creating this. He was a huge part in it.

https://morph.zone/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=36

Very good so far. It should be divided up into several articles now, and maybe a little of it should have some bold text

I am adding to my todo list too, apparantly some people have trouble using the current buttons with Voyager. I will put up a seperate set of buttons on the individual bounty pages that are more voyager friendly.

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Done, take a look

Looking pretty ok so far. Although I have to disagree with the rule that you have to give your sourcecode to be 'reviewed' .. IMHO the binaries would suffice.

Well they are a "living" set of rules for now, i am working on them some bit by bit and making changes as they need it. I will talkitover some more with the others helping andsee how they feel about that. Thanks for the input.

Good point Hooligan.

"Then, the source code will be reviewed by the MorphOS team"

Should be removed.

In fact what has to be checked is that the (same) binary can be rebuild from the source + makefiles. The code certainly does not have to be reviewed.

As for delivering the binary only it is going too much against the interest of the bounty contributors (what if the binary does not work with a new MOS version and that the author does not update it ?).

IMHO, it should be dictated by the "rule of the bounty." In other words, some projects need no more than an executable, others should be fully GPl'd, and other stuff could be somewhere in between.

Some examples:

Blender is open source in the first place, that's a no brainer. If it's ported it stays open source.

We want a 'modern' browser, and some guy from Opera is willing to port that for some bounty, we can't exactly ask for diddly more than a binary, now can we?

Lets say we want a new IRC client, we could ask for sources, but if there is only one prospective author and he doesn't want to release sources--I don't have a problem with it (assuming it isn't a port of XChat or something).

An SFSSalv-alike (it doesn't have to be sfssalv per-se) should at least have the code open to us, or to the morphos team if nothing else.

I think the rules should clearly state that each bounty should be posted with a suggested licensing scheme, but variences can be made where the situation warrents. Also, if two programmers are offering to take up the bounty-and all other things are equal--the preference will go to the prospective author who will provide sources.