We're scheduled for a meeting with the community council tomorrow at 17:00UTC (or 8 en la tarde as we say in Spanish). What topics to bring up?
We seem to be getting funds from the ubuntu community donations in acceptable time and I see the latest report has been published https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1IKaC3aOByiR5oT0_L4h0mhLfQ7uHJPabipNjKNoMxZw/ (still plenty of money in the bank here, we should be applying for any expenses from here). Looking at the Ubuntu website it uses the deprecating term "derivatives" for ubuntu flavours such as ourselves that are not a derivative, I think I'll ask this to be changed http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/derivatives Our Kubuntu Plasma5 images are being produced from a PPA and being published on cdimages which is great. The technical problems that I feared from Canonical moving away from community made software are coming true, KDE is recommending SDDM having moved away from LightDM because of the need to agree to a special licence to Canonical. I'm now having trouble making SDDM work with our images and have nowhere in Ubuntu to turn to for help. Reviewing the licence policy situation the Ubuntu liceensing page says all the right stuff http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing "Must allow these rights to be passed on along with the software. You should be able to have exactly the same rights to the software as we do." which is correct. The Canonical IP policy continues to be incorrect however http://www.canonical.com/intellectual-property-rights-policy "Any redistribution of modified versions...will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries" This is incorrect, as all software is free software once it is distributed to someone that person can further distribute it all they want under the relevant free software licence. To claim otherwise is an insult to the copyright holders, the upstreams who write our software, and goes against the Ubuntu policy above. It causes worry for our supporters and is one reason why Blue Systems are looking at other distributions. It needs to be changed and I strongly feel it is the task of the community council to stand up to Canonical on this topic. Let me know of any other topics and hopefully we can have several people turn up Jonathan -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
