Talk:October 2011 Coding Challenge/Rules

Teams

 * Are we allowed to work in teams and submit a single entry for multiple people?

Translation ?
--Lamiot 19:14, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 * French :Je pense qu'il serait intéressant de traduire cette page, et les autres relatives au concours et appel à projet, au moins dans les langues les plus couramment parlées. Est-ce prévu ? Peut-on aider ? et si oui, comment ?}}
 * English : I think it would be interesting to translate this page and other related to call for proposals, at least in the languages ​​most commonly spoken in the world. Is this expected ? Can we help you ? and if so, how?}}

Indemnification
This seems a little draconian:


 * "In addition, you represent and warrant that your Entry (i) does not infringe, misappropriate or violate any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, literary, trade secret, privacy, proprietary, publicity, contractual or other right...YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, RELEASE, DEFEND, AND HOLD HARMLESS WMF AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, AGENCIES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES OF EACH FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIMS, CHARGES, INJURIES, LOSSES OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND CAUSED BY, RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF (A) YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST, (B) WMF’S USE OF THE ENTRY, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, (C) YOUR ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, (D) ANY BREACH BY YOU OR ANY OF THE WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS SET FORTH IN THESE RULES, (E) ANY VIOLATION OR CLAIMED VIOLATION OF A THIRD PARTY'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER RIGHTS RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM THE USE OF YOUR ENTRY, AND/OR (F) A DETERMINATION BY A COURT OR AGENCY THAT YOU ARE AN AGENT OF WMF."

So as I read this (IANAL, etc...), by entering the contest, you're basically agreeing to indemnify WMF against all possible IP claims resulting from your entry. In other words, if you create a fantastic mobile photo upload application that winds up being widely distributed and WMF, or even one of its partners, is sued for patent infringement (perhaps somewhat unlikely, but not inconceivable given the number of mobile imaging and geotagging-related patents out there), you're on the hook to defend the Foundation. For that matter, reading the rules literally, you could be on the hook to defend WMF against a claim of defamation arising from a random user's (ab)use of your contest entry.

I realize the intent is to protect the Foundation against obvious abuses (like someone submitting their employer's proprietary code without permission), but I question why the contest needs to impose such an onerous condition when normal MediaWiki contributors have no such policy (as I understand it). Zachlipton 02:05, 27 October 2011 (UTC)